Elymus caninus Bearded Couch

A non-rhizomatous couch-grass with wide leaves and spikelets with conspicuously long awns. It prefers base-rich soils and grows in ancient woodlands and other shaded habitats such as wooded riversides, and verges. It aslo grows on cliffs and in shaded gullies on mountains. It is found throughout much of Britain, but it is rather local in West Glamorgan where it grows in the more base-rich alluvial soils of the river corridor woodlands of the Neath and upper Tawe valleys.

Native