Deschampsia flexuosa
Deschampsia flexuosa | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Pooideae |
Genus: | Deschampsia |
Species: | D. flexuosa
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Binomial name | |
Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin.
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Deschampsia flexuosa, commonly known as wavy hair-grass, is a species of bunchgrass in the grass family widely distributed in Eurasia, Africa, South America, and North America.[1]
Description[]
Wavy hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa, has wiry leaves and delicate, shaking panicles formed of silvery or purplish-brown flower heads on wavy, hair-like stalks. The leaves are bunched in tight tufts with plants forming a very tussocky, low sward 5 to 20 cm tall before flowering, to 30 cm high.
Illustration of D. flexuosa (including D. caespitosa)
Mature inflorescence
Distribution and habitat[]
Deschampsia flexuosa is found naturally in dry grasslands and on moors and heaths.
It is also an important component of the ground flora of birch and oak woodland.[2]
The plant has a preference for acidic, free-draining soil, and avoids chalk and limestone areas. It can exist over 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) above sea level.[3]
See also[]
- Woodland and scrub communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system—birch and oak woodland
References[]
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ see British NVC community W11 (Quercus petraea–Betula pubescens–Oxalis acetosella woodland) and (Quercus spp.–Betula spp.–Deschampsia flexuosa woodland).
- ^ BSBI Description Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 1 December 2010.
External links[]
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- Bunchgrasses of South America
- Bunchgrasses of Africa
- Butterfly food plants
- Pooideae stubs