Avenula pubescens

Downy meadow oat ( Helictotrichon pubescens)

The Fluffy meadow oat ( Helictotrichon pubescens, Syn: .. Avenula pubescens ( Huds. ) Dumort; Avenochloa pubescens ( Huds. ) Holub; Avena pubescens Huds ), also referred to as fluff oats, belongs to the family of grasses ( Poaceae ). The Fluffy meadow oats is a good fodder grass, but no grazing or over-fertilization can withstand. In some federal states of Germany, he is on the Red List, as its holdings in many places to fall sharply through intensification of agriculture.

Features

He is a 30 cm to 120 cm tall nascent sweet grass. Its leaves and leaf sheaths are soft hairy. The leaf blade is characteristic flat, they appear in the diameter V-shaped. The ligule is about 5 to 7 mm long. The best 3- flowered spikelets is about 10 to 17 mm long. At least one glume is as long as the spikelet. The lower ones are 1- annoying, the upper mostly 3- annoying. The ungekielte lemma forms of 2 or 3 awns. The spikelets are in the 3 - to 5 - ästigen panicles.

Distribution and location

The Fluffy meadow oat is spread from Europe to western Siberia. He settled fresh meadows, fresh meadows, dwarf shrub heath, Nardus grasslands, arid and semi- arid grassland and ruderal on moderately nutrient-rich, often calcareous, dry to slightly moist soils.