Sesleria albicans

Lime Blue Grass ( Sesleria albicans)

The Lime Blue Grass ( Sesleria albicans) or ordinary blue grass is a species in the genus of blue grasses ( Sesleria ) within the family of grasses ( Poaceae ).

Description

The lime - blue grass is a perennial, herbaceous plant. This forming dense cushions grass forms numerous, growing up within the leaf sheaths renewal rung. The plant height of the stalks is 10 to 40 centimeters. These are leafy only in the lower part.

The leaf sheaths are glabrous, the lower can be also finely hairy and closed almost to the top. The ligule is a 0.2 to 0.5 mm long, membranous hem. The bare leaf blades are 10 to 25 centimeters long and 2.5 to 3 millimeters wide. Its shape is flat - spread or folded.

The panicle is 10 to 30 millimeters long and four to 10 millimeters wide and is oblong - ovate. The spikelets are two to dreiblütig and 4.5 to 7 millimeters long.

The flowering period extends from April to May

Chromosome number: 2n = 28

Dissemination

As the site preferably the kalkstete plant stony dry grasslands, rocky grass and poor grass. But also dry and flat ground, forests, especially pine forests.

In Germany, the lime - blue grass is widespread in the Alps and Pre-Alps. The area covers the north of the Ahr Valley to eastern Westphalia, to the northern edge of the Harz mountains and the heights of the Thuringian Basin and Hainleite.

In Austria, this type is often used in all provinces of the hill and subalpine altitudinal zone.

Ecology

The plant is considered Magerkeitszeiger, Kalkzeiger, pioneer plant debris and stevedores. She is also the Kennart the Blue Grass stockpile ( Polygalo amarae - Seslerietum albicantis ) and the blue grass lawn ( Seslerion albicantis ).