Lolium temulentum
Common name
darnel
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.
LOLTEM
Similar taxa
Roots fibrous. Stems about 45 to 60 cm tall. Leaf sheaths smooth, overlapping on one another. Leaf blades 3 to 6 mm wide, flat, slightly rough on upper surfaces. Spikes long and narrow with 2 rows of small flattened spikelets placed edgewise to the stem. Outer glume of spikelet as long as or longer than spikelet, sharply pointed. (Wax, Fawcett and Isely 1981)
Year naturalised
1855
Origin
Mediterranean
Reproduction
Seeds.
Seed
Seed 3 to 6 mm long, narrowly oval, brownish, usually short-bearded at the tip. (Wax, Fawcett and Isely 1981)