Alopecurus arundinaceus
Alopecurus arundinaceus
Kamış tilkikuyruğu
Perennial, with creeping rhizomes. Stems 23-105 cm, usually erect, sometimes geniculately ascending from base, 2-noded. Leaf sheaths glabrous to slightly hairy, inflated; ligule 1.5-2 mm, obtuse-truncate; blades 2.5-4.5 cm x 3-10 mm, linear, acuminate, scabrid on margins and somewhat on upper surface. Panicle 1.7-7 cm x 6-14 mm, broadly cylindrical, green to purplish. Spikelets 3.5-7 mm, urceolate. Glumes lanceolate, acute, diverging at apex, connate for 1/4 of their length, ciliate on keels. Lemma 3.5-5.8 mm, ovate, obliquely truncate, with a subdorsal awn; awn 1.5-7.5 mm , somewhat geniculate and twisted below but usually rather slender and variously curved. Anthers 3-3.6 mm. Fl. 4-8. Marshy ground, water meadows, cultivated land, roadsides, ditches, s.l.-3050 m.
Temperate Eurasia. Euro-Sib, element.
