Citation: Nees, Linnaea 19:694 (1847).

Synonymy: Festuca muralis Kunth, Syn. Pl. 1:128 (1822); V. broteri Boiss. & Reuter, Pugill. Pl. Nov. 128 (1852).

Common name: Wall rescue, silver grass.

Description:
Erect slender annual, to 60 cm high; leaf blades setaceous.

Panicle usually well exserted beyond the leaf sheaths, erect, narrow, 2-12 cm long; spikelets 3-6-flowered, distal florets smaller and sterile; first glume less than 2 mm long; the second about twice as long; lemmas 4-7 mm with an awn about twice as long.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NU, FR, EP, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to the western Mediterranean. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Aug. — Dec.

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

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