Species

Aira caryophyllea subsp. multiculmis

Common Name(s)

silvery hair grass

Authority

Aira caryophyllea L. subsp. multiculmis (Dumort.) Bonnier et Layens

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

AIRMUL

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

Sandy waste land, cliffs, banks, rocky grassland, roadsides

Features

Annual grass growing in dull green or reddish-green, erect tufts up to 50cm tall. Long ligule. Spiklets very small and silvery on hair-like branches. Each spiklet has two awns which cross.

Origin

South-western Europe

This page last updated on 5 Mar 2010