smaller cat's-tail
Scientific name: Typha angustifolia
Family: Typhaceae
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Flowering time: June to August
Height: 6cm
Growing conditions: wide range of soil types.
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Description
A leafy perennial grass, widespread, native grass of old meadows. Generally a smaller, slighter version of Timothy. The cylindrical heads give it its name ‘cat’s-tail’.
How to identify: It has cylindrical heads. The leaves are flat, hairless and pale greyish-green in colour. Its plants develop a laxly tufted base from which leafy flowering stems arise with a bent or prostrate base, as well as some leafy non-flowering runners (stolons) making it capable of vegetative spread.
How to propagate: Sowing in warm soils from May to September will encourage quick germination and establishment, only a small percentage is needed in a seed mixture as it is a moderately vigorous grass which establishes readily from seed in good growing conditions.
Family: Typhaceae
Other common names;
Flowering time: June to August
Height: 6cm
Growing conditions: wide range of soil types.
Nectar source for:
Food source for:
Description
A leafy perennial grass, widespread, native grass of old meadows. Generally a smaller, slighter version of Timothy. The cylindrical heads give it its name ‘cat’s-tail’.
How to identify: It has cylindrical heads. The leaves are flat, hairless and pale greyish-green in colour. Its plants develop a laxly tufted base from which leafy flowering stems arise with a bent or prostrate base, as well as some leafy non-flowering runners (stolons) making it capable of vegetative spread.
How to propagate: Sowing in warm soils from May to September will encourage quick germination and establishment, only a small percentage is needed in a seed mixture as it is a moderately vigorous grass which establishes readily from seed in good growing conditions.