Purpling. Downy Oat-grass, Helictotrichon pubescens, Gaasperplaspark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
't Is the season of many flowering grasses. Here, if I'm not mistaken - I find naming grasses something of a challenge - is Downy Oat-grass, Helictotrichon pubescens, in full flower. You can see the purple anthers attached to the flower by fine filaments. Then there are the feathery stigmas, and the pollen sticking to a lower glume on the right. Most grasses cross-pollinate usually by the wind, and as Anna Weimarck suggested in 1967, this is also the case for Downy Oat-grass.
Purpling. Downy Oat-grass, Helictotrichon pubescens, Gaasperplaspark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
't Is the season of many flowering grasses. Here, if I'm not mistaken - I find naming grasses something of a challenge - is Downy Oat-grass, Helictotrichon pubescens, in full flower. You can see the purple anthers attached to the flower by fine filaments. Then there are the feathery stigmas, and the pollen sticking to a lower glume on the right. Most grasses cross-pollinate usually by the wind, and as Anna Weimarck suggested in 1967, this is also the case for Downy Oat-grass.