Midsummer grass flowers

Midsummer day near the Ribble at Langcliffe: 

Helictochloa pratensis - Meadow Oat-grass by the Ribble

21 June:

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

 - and all within 200 metres of my house near Langcliffe in the Yorkshire Dales. 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 within the 200metres: The total will be 31 by July!

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

Rye-grass (Lolium perenne) and
Soft Brome (Bromus hordeaceus)

False Oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius)

Hungarian Brome (Bromopsis inermis)

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Then up onto the country track near the railway

Upright Brome  (though leaning over here!!!) (Bromopsis erecta)

Morning finds:

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                                     Quaking Grass

Elymus caninus (almost in flower)  Bearded Couch

Festuca ovina                                   Sheep's Fescue

Helictochloa pratensis                      Meadow Oat-grass

Phalaris arundinacea (almost in flower) Reed Canary-grass

Schedonorus arundinaceus               Tall Fescue

Sesleria caerulea                               Blue Moor-grass

Trisetum flavescens                          Yellow Oat-grass

Down near the river. 

Meadow Oat-grass  Helictochloa pratensis

Quaking-grass Briza media

Leaves see 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)

See  my many posts on individual species

Read online the article I wrote for the North Craven Heritage Trust - A Grass for every month in North Craven. p27, edition 2009 - Where I state there are 72 native grasses in North Craven and about 7 non-native growing wild.