Glyceria notata
Glyceria notata
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Syn: G.plicata
Subaquatic perennial with short rootstock. Stems tufted, prostrate at base and rooting at lower nodes, erect-ascending, to 80 cm, glabrous. Leaf sheaths compressed, glabrous; ligule 3-5 mm, lacerate at apex. Leaf blades flat or folded, 2.5-8 mm broad, dark to bluish-green, acuminate, margins and both surfaces scabridulous. Panicle lax, 10-40 cm, branches glabrous or slightly scabridulous, Spikelets disarticulating in fruit, 8-20 mm, 8-13-flowered, linear-oblong. Glumes elliptic-ovate, 1-veined, obtuse or broadly subacute; lower ovate, 1.5-2.2 mm; upper 2.5-3.5 mm. Lemmas conspicuously 7-veined, broadly elliptic to obovate, 3-4.5 mm, greyish-green, sometimes tipped or suffused purple, scabridulous on veins, obtuse, upper 1/3-1/2 with slightly crenulate, hyaline margins. Palea narrowly oblong-obovate, shorter than or equalling lemma, 2-denticulate; keels winged towards apex. Anthers linear, 1-1.3 mm, yellow. Caryopsis oblong-ellipsoid, c. 2.5 mm , dark brown. . Fl. 5-9. Streams and riversides, in Abies, Picea or Pinus sylvestris forest, open meadow, water meadows, marshy valleys, freshwater lakes on limestone or volcanic substrate, sandy flood plains, pools and ditches by roadside, always in wet and humid places, 200-2300 m.
Widespread species in Europe, S.W. to C. Asia and N.W.Africa.
