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Taeniatherum is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family. [3] [4] [5]The only recognized species is medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) which is native to southern and central Europe (from Portugal to European Russia), North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), and Asia (from Turkey and Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and Kazakhstan).
Typha latifolia is a perennial herbaceous wetland plant in the genus Typha.It is known in English as bulrush [4] [5] (sometimes as common bulrush [6] to distinguish from other species of Typha), and in American as broadleaf cattail. [7]
The seeds are covered in this cottony mass and usually disperse when the wind carries them away. Eriophorum callitrix has narrow, grass-like leaves. Its habitats include tundra and calcareous bogs. [2] This plant is food for migrating snow geese, caribou and their calves. The Inuit used the seed heads as wicks in seal oil lamps. Clumps were ...
The grass can grow up to 145 cm tall with seed heads that can grow up to approximately 40 cm in length. Native millet is hermaphroditic, which means it contains both the male and female reproductive organs in the same flower. The seed head has an open panicle structure which consists of multiple small branches loosely clustered together.
Thinopyrum intermedium, known commonly as intermediate wheatgrass, [1] is a sod-forming perennial grass in the Triticeae tribe of Pooideae native to Europe and Western Asia. [2] It is part of a group of plants commonly called wheatgrasses because of the similarity of their seed heads or ears to common wheat.
Enneapogon nigricans, known by the common names blackheads, [1] bottle washers, pappus grass, [1] purpletop grass, [1] and niggerheads, [3] is a perennial Australian grass. Distinctive lance-shaped seedheads appear in late spring and summer. They form at the top of wiry stalks over 30 cm long. They start as an olive green colour, but dry to a ...
Fruits: The seed-producing season of the grass is from June to September. The seeds mature disproportionally and production is commonly slow. [11] The joints of the seedhead break into two as the fruit matures and each seed-bearing part contains one seed. [7] The size of the seedhead can range from 6 to 10 inches. Usually, spikelets of grass ...
Poa trivialis (rough meadow-grass), showing the ligule structure Poa [ 2 ] is a genus of about 570 species of grasses , native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly in Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly in North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass .