Agrostis stolonifera
Agrostis stolonifera
Tavusotu
Caespitose perennial with numerous long stolons. Stems 30-70 cm, erect to geniculately ascending from base, glabrous and smooth. Leaf sheaths glabrous; ligule 1-5 mm, obtuse; blades 4-9 cm x 2-5 mm, linear, acute, usually flat, somewhat involute, smooth to scabrid. Panicle 5-24 x 1-4 cm, linear-lanceolate to oblong; branches patent, to 8 cm, usually aculeolate; pedicels 0.5-2 mm, aculeolate. Spikelets densely clustered, 1.7-3 mm, greenish to purplish. Glumes aculeolate on keel, lanceolate, acute, equal to sub equal. Lemma 2/3-3/4 as long as glumes, ovate-oblong, truncate, usually awnless, rarely with a short subterminal awn. Palea 1/3-2/3 as long as lemma. Anthers 1-1.5 mm. Fl. 6-8. Moist meadows, wet places, nr s.I.-2390 m.
Europe, Mediterranean area, S.W. Asia eastwards to Siberia. Introduced in Japan and N. America. Euro-Sib. element.
