Arrhenatherum

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Read about Arrhenatherum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Arrhenatherum (Greek arren, masculine, and other, awn, in reference to the awned staminate flower). Graminex. Oat Grass. Tall perennials with flat blades and long narrow panicles: spikelets 2-fld., the lower staminate, its lemma bearing a geniculate twisted dorsal awn, the upper perfect, short-awned or awnless. Species 6, Medit. region. One species, tall oat-grass (A. elatius, Beauv.), is cult. as a meadow grass. Dept. Agric., Div. Agrost. 20:95. There has been recently intro. into the eastern states a variety (var. tuberosum, Halac. A. bulbosum, Presl ) that bears at the base of the culms a short chain of corms. A variegated form of this has been offered under the name A. bulbosum variegatum. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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