Family: Poaceae
Vulpia bromoides
Citation:
Gray, Nat. arr. Brit. Pl. 2:124 ( 1821 ).
Synonymy: Festuca bromoides L., Sp. Pl. 75 (1753); Festuca sciuroides Roth, Bot. Abh. Beobacht. 43 (1787); V. sciuroides (Roth)Roth ex C. Gmelin, Fl. Bad. 1:9 (1806).
Common name: Squirrel-tail rescue, rats-tail fescue, silver grass.
Description:
Slender annual, usually somewhat decumbent at the base, to 50 cm high; leaf blades setaceous.
Panicle well exserted beyond the leaf sheaths, erect, narrow, 2-10 cm long; spikelets 4-7-flowered, 6-10 mm long; first glume 2.5-4 mm long, subulate; the second about twice as long, lanceolate; lemmas 6-8 mm long, terete, with an awn to twice as long.
Published illustration:
Burbidge (1968) Australian grasses 2:pl. 38.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NU, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. All States except the N.T. Native to the Mediterranean and western Europe.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Sept. — Jan., occasionally at other times.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
A very common weedy grass of grazing land, roadsides and other uncultivated areas.
Author:
Not yet available
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