Midsummer grass flowers

Midsummer day near the Ribble at Langcliffe: 

Helictochloa pratensis - Meadow Oat-grass by the Ribble

16 species of grass in flower before breakfast on the mainroadside, and a country track .. and
8 more just now down near the river after supper

 - and all within 200 metres of my house. what a privilege! - total - 24!!..    

Plus 4 more whose leaves I saw but it is too early for the flowers

Plus 4 more I might be lucky enough to find one day and the total will be 31 by July!

First an increasingly good display in the gutter between the pavement and the road

Hungarian Brome

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Then up onto the country track near the railway

Upright Brome  (though leaning over here!!!)

Morning

Alopecurus pratensis           Meadow Foxtail

Anthoxanthum odoratum    Sweet Vernal grass 

Arrhenatherum elatius         False oat-grass

Avenula pubescens              Downy Oat-grass

Bromus hordeaceous           Soft Brome

Bromopsis erecta                 Upright Brome

Bromopsis                            Hungarian Brome

Cynosurus cristatus              Crested dog's-tail

Dactylis glomerata               Cock's-foot

Elymus repens                      Couch-grass

Festuca rubra                        Red Rescue

Lolium perenne                    Rye-grass

Schedonorus pratensis          Meadow Fescue

Poa annua                             Annual Meadow-grass

Poa pratensis                         Smooth Meadow-grass   
(or subcaerualea)

Poa trivialis                           Rough Meadow-grass

Evening:  - On limestone bedrock bank that was a former pasture, but has been fenced off by the Ribble Rivers Trust for about ten years.

Briza media

Elymus caninus (almost in flower)

Festuca ovina

Helictchloa pratensis

Phalaris arundinacea (almost in flower)

Schedonorus arundinaceus

Sesleria caerulea

Trisetum flavescens

Down near the river. 

Quaking-grass

Leaves but not in flower:

Agrostis capillaris - not in flower

Agrostis stolonifera - not in flower

 (Schedonorus gigantea  )  - not in flower       

(Brachypodium sylvaticum) - not in flower

Hope to see next month - 

Bromopsis ramosa

Molinia caerulea?

Phleum pratense

Aira praecox (near railway)