Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 70 (1753).

Synonymy: Poa bulbosa

Common name: Bulbous meadow-grass, bulbous blue-grass.

Description:
Tufted bulbous-based perennial, 5-40 cm high; culms erect or spreading; leaf blades flat, folded or inrolled, to 10 cm long, glabrous but sometimes scabrous on the keel and the nerves on the lower surface; sheaths glabrous.

panicle contracted and usually dense, ovate or oblong, c. 2-6 cm long, the branches more or less erect; spikelets 3-6-flowered, ovate to broadly oblong, compressed; glumes 2-3 mm long; lemmas 2.5-3.5 mm long, finely 5-nerved, densely fringed with long hairs on the keel and the marginal nerves, the median nerves or the internerves glabrous on the lower lemma, but increasingly hairy on the upper lemmas.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to the Mediterranean and Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.

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

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