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Lolium temulentum
Also called Darnel, Bearded Darnel, Bearded Ryegrass, Poison Darnel, Darnel Drake, Drake Darnel, Drunken Darnel
Darnel ryegrass is an annual grass, up to about one metre tall, that is grown as a weed or curiosity rather than a garden plant. It is grown from seed sown in spring and has a long history as a weed of cereal fields.
Lolium temulentum, commonly known as darnel, poison darnel, darnel ryegrass or cockle, is an annual flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae. The plant stem can grow up to one meter tall, with inflorescence in the ears and purple grain. It has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Rye Grass · Tall fescue · Italian Rye Grass · Perennial ryegrass · Wimmera ryegrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lolium temulentum 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.
