Leaves 2 6 long 3 8 wide rough above downy on lower surface tapering at both ends flat.
Long awned wood grass.
This perennial grass is 1 2 tall more or less erect and unbranched.
Slender spikes of long awned seeds.
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.
Panicle 2 7 long narrow slender few flowered branches erect 1 4 long.
Long awned wood grass brachyelytrum erectum grass family poaceae description.
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.
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.
Notes a compact clump forming grass with short broad leaves.
New england distribution and.
Can work well as an ornamental.
It is common in the prairie provinces especially outside the semi arid regions.
The culm of each plant is light to medium green terete and mostly hairless.
Usually occurs in non wetlands but occasionally in wetlands.
It is easily distinguished however by the long awns on the flowering glumes and the arrangement of the flowers in a one sided spike.
Ligule less than 1 long.
Brachyelytrum erectum schreb beauv.
Brachyelytrum very distinctive forest understory grasses with slender long awned spikelets.
Now the grass is flowering and multitudes of fuzzy grass flower heads catch the sunlight as above.
2003 provide evidence for the presence of two species in eastern north america.
Nodes and sheaths downy.
Awned wheat grass has a short rootstock and therefore grows in tufts like western rye grass.
The rachilla is prolonged as a rather conspicuous bristle back of the palea.
Its broad leaves held perpendicular to the stem can add an interesting texture to either a woodland setting or a perennial border.
The palea is 7 to 12 mm long hairless and 2 keeled the keels forming 2 teeth at the tip.