Deschampsia flexuosa
Wire Schmiele ( Deschampsia flexuosa )
The wire Schmiele ( Deschampsia flexuosa ), also known as wavy hairgrass, is a species of grass in the genus of Schmielen ( Deschampsia ) in the family of grasses ( Poaceae ). It features acidic and lean locations and like other Schmielen often used because of its attractive panicles to jewelry purposes in floristry and horticulture.
Features
The wire is a Schmiele in loose to dense clumps growing, perennial plant. It is rooted up to one meter deep and reaches heights of growth between 30 and 50, sometimes up to 70 or more centimeters. The smooth stems grow upright or bent from the foundation. They are very tight and thin and carry one to three nodes. The leaf sheaths are round on the back and slightly rough to the top. The ligule is blunt and measure up to 3 mm in length, but are mostly much shorter. The bare, finely bristly and curled leaf blades feel oily smooth. They are about 20 inches long.
The inflorescences are very loose and open panicles. These are up to 15 centimeters long and about 10 centimeters wide. The principal axes are tortuous, rough and very thin. They carry two tortuous knots at each node. The 2-6 mm long spikelets are usually two flowered. The most tetradentate lemmas carry a 4-7 millimeter long gekniete awn, which clearly dominates the spikelets. The heyday of grass extends from June to July.
Ecology
The wire Schmiele is a perennial Hemikryptophyt and Horst plant. It's about running red in sunny locations and a deep-rooting.
At the flower is from wind pollination and they are self- sterile. The species blooms on thin places conspicuously more than shady. The flowering period extends from June to July.
The fruits are caryopses that are loosely surrounded by lemmas and spread as a balloon pilot and wing flyer by the wind; next animal propagation occurs as Velcro Misty Misty and water as well as water spread as Regenschwemmlinge. The fruits are light to germinate. Fruit ripening is between August and October.
Vegetative reproduction occurs by short underground runners.
Distribution and location
The wire Schmiele is distributed worldwide. It is native to Europe and Asia and North Africa and in South and North America. It grows on nutrient - and calcium-poor, acidic soil in dwarf shrub heath and Nardus grassland, tall herb fringe communities and thickets of the mountains as well as in deciduous and coniferous forests. As penumbral light to plant it only comes to light larger sites such as forest beats optimal flowering.
Trivial names
Another German -language common name silver goatee, forest and grass Weddegras are or have been, in part only regionally, including the names of bush grass, Drahtschmelen (Silesia ), related.