Crested dog's-tail

Crested Dog's-tail

©Richard Burkmarr

Crested dog's-tail

Growing in tufts, Crested dog's-tail is a stiff-looking grass, with a tightly packed, rectangular flower spike. Look for it in lowland meadows and grasslands.

Enw gwyddonol

Cynosurus cristatus

Pryd i'w gweld

January to December

Gwybodaeth am rywogaethau

Ystadegau

Height: up to 75cm
Common.

Ynghylch

Once grown as a crop and used for making bonnets, Crested dog's-tail is a common, tufted, perennial grass of grasslands and meadows. It tolerates many different kinds of soils, but is generally a lowland species and does not like to be waterlogged.

Sut i'w hadnabod

Growing in compact tufts, Crested dog's-tail is a rather stiff-looking grass with narrow, green leaves. It has short, upright flower spikes with a tightly packed cluster of spikelets (containing the flowers) arranged in a long, rectangular shape.

Dosbarthiad

Widespread.

Roeddech chi yn gwybod?

Crested dog's-tail is the foodplant of caterpillars of several butterfly species in the brown and skipper families.