A Squirreltail Fescue at O'Connor, ACT
Identification history
| Vulpia sp. | 14 Jan 2023 | Tapirlord | ||
| Vulpia sp. | 14 Jan 2023 | Grassman | ||
| Unidentified | 4 Oct 2022 | ConBoekel |
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User's notes
The length of the seed heads was longer than the length of the stem. The seed heads were essentially resting on nearby grasses.
7 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
4 Oct 2022
Hi Con, do you have a photo which shows the whole of the seed heads, not so close up?
MattM
wrote:
2 Nov 2022
The dense inflorescence with those wispy looking awns makes me think of Vulpia sp.
Tapirlord
wrote:
3 Nov 2022
That was my first thought as well, but i'm not sure I'm happy to confirm off these photos.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
3 Nov 2022
My thought was that it may be Bromus diandrus. The close ups are too close to get a good perspective of size.
Grassman
wrote:
14 Jan 2023
Spikelets are too delicate to be B diandrus and would need to be on much longer pedicels to be that species. There are 2 different length glumes which are shorter than the lemmas (typical of Vulpia) and the plant appears to be a cool-season annual (small crown, all starting to die off). So Vulpia. Low glume is a minute triangle. Would need to know if flowerhead was fully exerted (V muralis) or partially enclosed (V myuros)
ConBoekel
wrote:
14 Jan 2023
I did go back but could not relocate the same plant. I will keep an eye on the location next spring. Thank you to all the moderator's for your efforts. We now have over 680 species listed for Dryandra Street Woodland... a nice data complement to all the environmental weeding the friends are undertaking.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.111993-35.262098
- Altitude 625.0m
- Maps Dryandra St Woodland
- Places O'Connor, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 2 Oct 2022 02:50 PM Recorded on
- ConBoekel Recorded by
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Plants Grasses ConBoekel
Additional information
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
- True In flower
Species information
- Vulpia sp. Scientific name
- A Squirreltail Fescue Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Minor weed or pest
- Up to 803.5m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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