Helictotrichon pratense   Meadow Oat-grass

 

 

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This is quite a common grass of the summer time but you could confuse it with the very common Arrhenatherum elatius (False Oat-grass) or its cousin Helictotrichon pubescens (Downy Oat-grass) which has hairy socks. (The lower culm sheaths are slightly pubescent).

Quarry floor, Coed Cilygroeslwyd, 30th May 2005

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Added on 30th May 2005