Scientific name:

Dactylis glomerata

Vernacular name:

Cock's-foot

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Cock's-foot

Scientific name: Dactylis glomerata L.

Diagnostic features
Culms densely tufted, to 1.4m.
Leaves and sheaths very rough, ± glaucous.
Lemmas with hairs or prickles on keel, with awn 1.5-2mm.

Chromosome number: 2n=28.

Habitat
Native; grassland, open woodland and rough, waste and cultivated ground.

Distribution
Very common throughout British Isles.

This species is keyed out on Page 606: Dactylis in the Text Key.

Note
Formerly much grown for hay and pasture; the more robust plants of artifical habitats are probably of introduced stock.

Hubbard, C.E., 1968. Grasses, a guide to their structure, identification, uses, and distribution in the British Isles. 2nd Edition. Penguin Books. 462 pp.

Dactylis glomerata 2 (Flowering, picture taken in Hunts by J. Mason)
Dactylis glomerata 3 (Flowering picture taken in Belgium by R. van der Meijden)
Dactylis glomerata 4 (Flowers, picture taken in the Netherlands, in slide collection of NHN-Leiden)
Dactylis glomerata 5 (Flowering, picture taken in Hunts by J. Mason)
Dactylis glomerata a (Habit, inflorescence and flower and fruit details, drawing by J. Sampson in Hubbard, 1968.)

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