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Yorkshire Fog

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Yorkshire Fog photos
Scientific Name:Holcus lanatus
Plants fo Yorkshire Fog
Plants of Yorkshire Fog
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to north-west Arica, Europe and temperate Asia but widely introduced or naturalised in North and South America, southern Africa, New Zealand an Australia.

Plant Description:
A tufted perennial grass to 1 m high. Leaves are covered in velvety hairs, causing them to appear greyish. Leaf blades to 25 cm long and 3-10 mm wide.

Flower-heads are moderately dense, narrowly ovate panicles, 3-20 cm long, pinkish when young and becoming whitish with age. Spikelets are two flowered, 4-6 mm long. Outer glumes or flowering bracts are of similar length and enclose the florets. The upper glume sometimes had a fine subapical awn or bristle to 1 mm long. Lower floret is awnless, the upper floret has a strongly hooked subapical awn, 1-1.5 mm long.

Habitat:
Mainly a grass of the drier midlands of Victoria but common on seasonally wet freshwater and saline swamp and lake margins. Very tolerant of waterlogging; producing adventitious roots from the lower parts of the stem.

Comments:
A larger and more robust grass than Annual Fog (Holcus annuus), Yorkshire Fog has been used as a valuable fodder grass in the northern hemisphere. Generally regarded as a pasture and waste ground weed in Australia.

Yorkshire Fog Photos

Flower-heads of Yorkshire Fog
Flower-heads of Yorkshire Fog
Photo: A J Brown
Emerging flower-head of Yorkshire Fog
Emerging flower-head of Yorkshire Fog
Photo: A J Brown
Mature flower-head of Yorkshire Fog
Mature flower-head of Yorkshire Fog
Photo: A J Brown

Mature spikelets of Yorkshire Fog
Mature spikelets of Yorkshire Fog
Photo: A J Brown

Young plant of Yorkshire Fog
Young plant of Yorkshire Fog
Photo: A J Brown

Young spikelets of Yorkshire Fog
Young spikelets of Yorkshire Fog
Photo: A J Brown

Hairy stem of Yorkshire Fog
Hairy stem of Yorkshire Fog
Photo: A J Brown

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