Grasses
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Grasses
Grasses are flowering plants but have pannicles rather than the more familiar flower types of other plants.
The information about this group of species has been organised into reports, charts, maps and photos. Click a pic below to see the detail:
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For more information about a species click/tap its photograph:
Annual Meadow-grass Poa annua |
Smooth Meadow-grass Poa pratensis |
Rough Meadow-grass Poa trivialis |
Meadow Fescue Schendonorus pratensis |
Tall Fescue Festuca arundinacea |
Creeping BentAgrostis stolonifera |
Common Bent Agrostis capillaris |
Quaking-grass Briza media |
Great Quaking Grass Briza maxima |
Wood Melick Melica uniflora |
Whorl GrassCatabrossa aquatica |
Reed Canary-grassPhalaris arundinaceae |
Common Reed Phragmites australis |
Reed Sweet-grass Glyceria maxima |
Wood Millet Milium effusum |
Saltmarsh GrassPuccinellia maritima |
Red FescueFestuca rubra |
Sheeps-fescueFestuca ovina |
Giant Fescue Festuca gigantea |
Hairy-brome Bromopsis ramosa |
Upright BromeBromopsis erecta |
Barren Brome Anisantha sterilis |
Soft-brome Bromus hordeaceus |
Brown BentAgrostis vinealis |
False Oat-Grass Arrhenatherum elatius |
Wild Oat Avena fatua |
Yellow Oat-grass Trisetum flavescens |
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa |
Wavy Hair-grassDeschampsia flexuosa |
Silver Hair-grass Aira caryophyllea |
Floating Sweet-grassGlyceria fluitans |
Purple Moor Grass Molinia caerulea |
Heath GrassDanthonia decumbens |
Yorkshire-fog Holcus lanatus |
Creeping Soft-grass Holcus mollis |
Downy Oat-grassAvenula pubescens |
Meadow Oat-grass Helictotrichon pratense |
Wood Small-reed Calamagrostis epigeious |
Squirreltail FescueVulpia bromoides |
Bristle Bent Agrostis curtisii |
Marram Grass Ammophila arenaria |
Lyme Grass Leymus arenaria |
Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus pratensis |
Marsh Foxtail Alopecurus geniculatus |
Timothy Phleum pratense |
Smaller cats-tailPhleum bertolonii |
Sweet Vernal-grass Anthoxanthum odoratum |
Wall Barley Hordeum murinum |
Meadow Barley Hordeum secalinum |
Nit Grass Gastriidium ventricosum |
Perennial Rye-grass Lolium perenne |
Common Couch Grass Elymus repens |
Common Cord-grass Spartina anglica |
Sea Couch (probably hybrid) Elymus pycnanthus |
Early Hair-grassAira praecox |
Sea Fern-grassCatapodium marinum |
Curved Hard Grass Parapholis incurva |
Crested Dogs-tail Cynosurus cristatus |
False-brome Brachypodium sylvaticum |
Tor-grass Brachypodium rupestre |
Bermuda GrassCynodon dactylon |
Cocks-foot Dactylis glomerata |
HarestailLagurus ovatus |
Crested Hair-grassKoeleria macrantha |
