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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

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:  S.Aust.: NU, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T.   Native to the Mediterranean and western Europe.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Sept. — Jan., occasionally at other times.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: A very common weedy grass of grazing land, roadsides and other uncultivated areas.

Author: Not yet available


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