Fern-grass - Catapodium rigidum
A stiff plant. The inflorescence is branched throughout its length and spikelets are slender and more open than the similar Catapodium marinum.
It is a species of dry rocky outcrops and walls, avoiding acid rock. It may be found in other dry areas alongside roads etc.
Summer and autumn, although the dead plant often persists.
Annual.
Widespread in Britain, but sometimes local away from the coast.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 47 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Harecroft Crescent, Sapcote
31 May 2017
Graham Calow
Harecroft Crescent, Sapcote
31 May 2017
Graham Calow
Hinckley Road, Near Sapcote
31 May 2017
Graham Calow
Hinckley Road, Near Sapcote
31 May 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Fern-grasses, Fern-grass
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Poaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 19
- First record:
- 31/05/2017 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 24/07/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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Graham Calow
Fallow Close, Broughton Astley
16 June 2017
Graham Calow
Fallow Close, broughton Astley
16 June 2017
