Species

Leymus racemosus

Common Name(s)

Siberian lyme grass

Authority

Leymus racemosus (Lam.) Tzvelev

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

LEYRAC

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

Structural Class

Grasses

Habitat

Terrestrial: coastal dunes, foreshore, sandy places and waste land.

Features

Perennial grass with stout rhizomes and very robust tufts to 150 cm. Culm is stout and erect 50-110 cm tall. Leaf sheath yellowish and almost glabrous. Leaf blade 10-65 cm x 4.5-16 mm, strongly ribbed and almost glabrous. Flowering spike 25-40 cm stiff erect and tapered. Seed 6.5 x 2 mm.

Similar Taxa

Can be separated from L. arenarius by the spikelets in clusters of 3-5, and the glumes without any hairs.

Year Naturalised

1895

Origin

Eurasia

Reason For Introduction
Agricultural

Reproduction
Seed and rhizomes

Dispersal
Wind

This page last updated on 26 Mar 2010