Smaller Cat's-tail - Phleum bertolonii
Stems only reaching 10 to 50 cm and the cylindrical panicles only 1 to 6 cm long. It has a corm like root.
Timothy
Separation of this species from Timothy (Phleum pratense) is difficult and depends on detailed measurements of spikelets, awns and panicles
The County Recorder has asked for a specimen of this plant to be retained for verification
Usually in more mature grassland, sometimes on roadside verges.
June to August.
Perennial.
Common throughout much of Britain except the far north.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 518 of the 617 tetrads.
HAPeacock
Gilroes Cemetery Extension
05 July 2012
Graham Calow
Hinckley Lane, Wykin
04 July 2015
David Nicholls
Charity Fields, Desford
25 June 2013
'horned' spikelets
Graham Calow
Byre Crescent, Broughton Astley
10 July 2016
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Species profile
- Common names
- Smaller Cat's-tail
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Poaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 32
- First record:
- 22/06/2008 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 22/06/2024 (Grimes, Martin)
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Ergot
Ergot (Claviceps purpurea) is a violet-black spindle-shaped structure longitudinally furrowed, up to 1cm long, and formed in the inflorescences of grasses. The fungal body is described as an ergot kernel.
Choke
Epichloe typhina fungus galls the stems of various grasses, the gall often having a rather tubular appearance. It is white in the early stages, yellowing when mature. On various grasses including many of our most common species including Sweet Vernal-grass, False Oat-grass, Cock's-foot, Perennial Rye-grass, Wood Millet, Timothy and Rough Meadow-grass.