Brachyelytrum very distinctive forest understory grasses with slender long awned spikelets.
Long awned wood grass.
Awned wheat grass has a short rootstock and therefore grows in tufts like western rye grass.
This perennial grass is 1 2 tall more or less erect and unbranched.
Slender spikes of long awned seeds.
The rachilla is prolonged as a rather conspicuous bristle back of the palea.
Nodes and sheaths downy.
Usually occurs in non wetlands but occasionally in wetlands.
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.
Leaves 2 6 long 3 8 wide rough above downy on lower surface tapering at both ends flat.
2003 provide evidence for the presence of two species in eastern north america.
The palea is 7 to 12 mm long hairless and 2 keeled the keels forming 2 teeth at the tip.
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.
Long awned wood grass brachyelytrum erectum grass family poaceae description.
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.
Ligule less than 1 long.
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.
New england distribution and.
Notes a compact clump forming grass with short broad leaves.
It is common in the prairie provinces especially outside the semi arid regions.
It is more abundant in.
Brachyelytrum erectum schreb beauv.
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.