Long awned wood grass brachyelytrum erectum grass family poaceae description.
Long awned wood grass.
Slender spikes of long awned seeds.
Awned wheat grass has a short rootstock and therefore grows in tufts like western rye grass.
The culm of each plant is light to medium green terete and mostly hairless.
Brachyelytrum erectum schreb beauv.
New england distribution and.
Panicle 2 7 long narrow slender few flowered branches erect 1 4 long.
The rachilla is prolonged as a rather conspicuous bristle back of the palea.
Grass long awned wood brachyelytrum erectum often encountered in upland woods this grass is named for the long bristles awns that make up its sleek arching seedhead.
Northern long awned wood grass is found in moist forests in all new england states.
2003 provide evidence for the presence of two species in eastern north america.
It is easily distinguished however by the long awns on the flowering glumes and the arrangement of the flowers in a one sided spike.
Southern long awned wood grass is a native grass of moist forests and forest openings.
Usually occurs in non wetlands but occasionally in wetlands.
Ligule less than 1 long.
It is more abundant in.
Leaves 2 6 long 3 8 wide rough above downy on lower surface tapering at both ends flat.
Florets are surrounded by a pair of bracts lemma and palea the lemma narrowly elliptic the body 9 to 13 mm to inch long tapering to a straight awn 13 to 20 mm to inch long prominently 5 veined variously covered in stiff hairs especially along the veins the longest hairs 5 to 1 mm long.
Woods grass for several weeks a certain creeping mat forming grass has formed an attractive green carpet on shadowy woods floors where the gardeners have removed underbrush.
Now the grass is flowering and multitudes of fuzzy grass flower heads catch the sunlight as above.
It is common in the prairie provinces especially outside the semi arid regions.
Nodes and sheaths downy.
Its broad leaves held perpendicular to the stem can add an interesting texture to either a woodland setting or a perennial border.
This perennial grass is 1 2 tall more or less erect and unbranched.
Can work well as an ornamental.