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Anthoxanthum aristatum
Also called Annual vernal-grass, Small Sweet Vernalgrass, Vernalgrass
Annual vernalgrass is a small annual grass that forms tufts up to about 30 cm tall, native to North Africa and southern and western Europe and a minor weed of fields. It is a wild grass rather than a commonly grown ornamental, so care notes are general guidance for a grass of this kind.
Anthoxanthum aristatum is a species of grass known by the common names awned vernalgrass and annual vernalgrass. It is native to North Africa and southern and western Europe as far north as the Netherlands. It is also known in other regions, including northern Europe and North America, as an introduced species. It is occasionally a minor weed of fields. It is an annual grass growing in small tufts up to about 30 centimetres (12 in) tall. The leaves are short, pointed, and somewhat hairy. The inflorescence is up to 3 centimetres (1.2 in) long and 1 centimetre (0.4 in) wide, flat and hairy with spikelets a few millimeters long.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anthoxanthum aristatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
