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