Scolochloa festucacea

Ordinary fescue grass ( Scolochloa festucacea )

The Common reed fescue ( Scolochloa festucacea ) is a species of the Gramineae family.

Features

The Common reed fescue is a perennial, herbaceous, deciduous Geophyt, Hemikryptophyt or Helophyt. It reaches heights of growth from 90 to 180 inches and forming underground runners from. The top of the leaves is clearly rough. The glumes are of different length, which is longer than spikelets. The lemmas are one to three times mucronate, glabrous, smooth or slightly rough and have 1 to 1.5 millimeters long tuft of hair at the base.

The flowering time is June and July.

The chromosome number is 2n = 28

Occurrence

The habitat of Scolochloa festucacea is the reed of standing or slow- flowing waters. The species occurs in Germany in Brandenburg scattered and rare in the northeastern Saxony-Anhalt at the lower Havel and in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern from east to Peene -Randow ago. A neophytisches deposits in Bavaria has gone out again.

Documents

• Eckhart J. Jäger, Klaus Werner ( eds.): Rothmaler Exkursionsflora of Germany. Volume 4: Vascular Plants: Critical band. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1496-2.