Species

Deschampsia flexuosa

Etymology

Deschampsia: after Deschamps
flexuosa: flexuous

Common Name(s)

wavy hair grass

Authority

Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin.

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

DESFLE

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

Year Naturalised

1883

Origin

Europe, N. Asia, N. and S. America

This page last updated on 25 Mar 2010