. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . ll, andare constant in their character-istic colour and in the stronglyflattened stems. Unlike theKentucky Blue-grass, whichsoon ripens, the CanadaBlue-grass blooms the entireseason. Its panicles areshort and narrow (usuallyone-sided), with shortbranchesand greenish spike-lets. False Red-top, the tall-■\ est of the common Poas,blooms in swampy placesand in wet meadows, where the greenspikelets show each a tawny orange tipand sometimes change to dull purple as theseeds ripen. The l
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . ll, andare constant in their character-istic colour and in the stronglyflattened stems. Unlike theKentucky Blue-grass, whichsoon ripens, the CanadaBlue-grass blooms the entireseason. Its panicles areshort and narrow (usuallyone-sided), with shortbranchesand greenish spike-lets. False Red-top, the tall-■\ est of the common Poas,blooms in swampy placesand in wet meadows, where the greenspikelets show each a tawny orange tipand sometimes change to dull purple as theseeds ripen. The large, gracefully droop-ing panicles could hardly be mistaken forthose of the Red-top of the fields, andassuredly not if the spikelets were exam-ined, showing several tiny flowers in eachspikelet where the Red-top has but many places this species is known asFowl Meadow-grass, and the tradition isthat it received that name from the factthat wild ducks and other water-fowlbrought the seed to a low meadow nearDedham, Mass. Flexuous Spear-grass and Short-leavedSpear-grass {Pda autumndlis and P. hrachy-193. False Red-top, or FowlMeadow-grass. Poa triflora
Size: 961px × 2600px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublishergarde, bookyear1912
