Vulpia myuros Rat's-tail Fescue

A very distinctive, annual grass with long, thin, arching flowering spikes. It grows in disturbed areas such as waste places, quarries, open mosaic sites, railways, roadsides and gravelly tracks. It is widespread in much of southern Britain but scarcer in upland areas and largely absent from much of northern Britain. It is as common as Squirreltail Fescue (Vulpia bromoides) in West Glamorgan and grows in similar places and often with it. It is sometimes abundant along the edges of gritted forest roads.

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