Tufted Hair-grass - Deschampsia cespitosa
Large, densely tufted plant to 120 cm tall. Leaves to 5mm wide with strong parallel ridges and furrows on the upper side. Panicles with whorled spreading branches.
The panicle is branched. Each spikelet contains two florets. A strongly tufted grass forming large tussocks. Its leaves are very rough.
Wet or marshy ground, wet woodland, and heavy soils.
June to August.
Perennia.
Very common throughout Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 589 of the 617 tetrads.
Melinda Bell
Whitwick,Coalville Meadow SSSI
07 June 2021
Graham Calow
Sapcote, land behind Granitethorpe Allotments
16 April 2020
deeply ridged
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
12 July 2021
ligule
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
12 July 2021
spikelets
Melinda Bell
Heather, QEDJWood
14 June 2021
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Species profile
- Common names
- Tufted Hair-grass
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Poaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 175
- First record:
- 11/05/1992 (John Mousley;Steve Grover)
- Last record:
- 25/02/2025 (Isabel Raval)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote, land behind Granitethorpe Allotments
16 April 2020
martindgrimes
Clipsham Park Wood
13 June 2021
