Cynosurus echinatus L. (crested wheatgrass)
Cynosurus echinatus L. (crested wheatgrass)
amily: | Poaceae |
Habitat: | Ruderal meadow, in dry places, fields |
Growth habit: | herbaceous |
Plant size: | up to 1 m tall |
Flower colour: | green - yellow |
Flowering time | April - June |
Leaf characteristics: | Leaves on upright stem, leaf sheaths open to the base, glabrous |
Flower characteristics: | Flowers in dense, one-sided, ovoid panicles, outer spikelets with comb-like, sterile lemmas, inner fertile spikelets enclosed in finely fringed lemmas |
Fruits: | Nut fruit |
Special features: | The plant is an annual and glabrous. |