Aira caryophyllea subsp. multiculmis
Common name
silvery hair grass
Family
Poaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Grasses
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
AIRMUL
Conservation status
Not applicable
Habitat
Sandy waste land, cliffs, banks, rocky grassland, roadsides
Features
Annual grass growing in dull green or reddish-green, erect tufts up to 50cm tall. Long ligule. Spiklets very small and silvery on hair-like branches. Each spiklet has two awns which cross.
Origin
South-western Europe