Common name: Cocksfoot
Dactylis glomerata L. APNI* 
Description: Densely tufted perennial to 1.4 m high; culms erect or spreading.
Leaves with ligule membranous, 2–10 mm long; blade folded at first, to 14 mm wide, with an acute, boat-shaped apex.
Panicles narrow-oblong or elliptic to ovate, 15–30 cm long. Spikelets oblong-elliptic to almost cuneate, 5–9 mm long, arranged in 1-sided clusters; florets laterally compressed, bisexual. Glumes shorter than the lemmas, finely pointed. Lemmas closely overlapping, the keel ciliolate and extended into a short awn, firm except for the translucent margins. Paleas slightly shorter than the lemmas, 2-keeled, the keels minutely hairy or rough.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: A pasture grass that has become naturalized in adjacent areas, growing best on moist, fertile soils. Native of Medit. region.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *SWS, *SWP, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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