Common Name: Native Wheat-grass
Botanical Name: Elymus scaber
Family: GRAMINEAE
Description:
Slender, tufted, perennial native grass, 0.2-1 m high, forming a sparse tussock. Winter active. Narrow with a half-twist, rough along edges, hairy. May be reduced to a single spikelet. Winter to early summer. Seed heads are long, narrow and rough to touch and when dry the awns curve outwards.
Slender, tufted, perennial native grass, 0.2-1 m high, forming a sparse tussock. Winter active. Narrow with a half-twist, rough along edges, hairy. May be reduced to a single spikelet. Winter to early summer. Seed heads are long, narrow and rough to touch and when dry the awns curve outwards.
Natural Distribution:
Common to temperate woodlands and grasslands in all agricultural districts of SA. Also occurs in all other States except NT.
Common to temperate woodlands and grasslands in all agricultural districts of SA. Also occurs in all other States except NT.
Notes:
Found in grazed pastures throughout the northern agricultural districts of SA, although it is never a dominant grass in pastures. Recorded as endangered in the Yorke Peninsula region.
Found in grazed pastures throughout the northern agricultural districts of SA, although it is never a dominant grass in pastures. Recorded as endangered in the Yorke Peninsula region.
