common couch
Scientific name: Eltrigia repens
Family: Poaceae
Other common names; twitch, couch grass, wickens, Grandmother grass
Flowering time: June to August
Height: to 1.5m
Growing conditions:
Nectar source for:
Food source for: larvae of Speckled Wood and Ringlet butterflies
Description
Common couch is an abundant, tuft-forming grass, with long, tough roots, helping it to spread from hedges and field margins into crops. It can form dense stands that shade out other, more delicate grasses and plants.
How to identify: Common couch has green, fat, blade-like leaves, but long, thin flower spikes. Tiny, golden spikelets appear at the ends of the stems in rows.
How to propagate:
Family: Poaceae
Other common names; twitch, couch grass, wickens, Grandmother grass
Flowering time: June to August
Height: to 1.5m
Growing conditions:
Nectar source for:
Food source for: larvae of Speckled Wood and Ringlet butterflies
Description
Common couch is an abundant, tuft-forming grass, with long, tough roots, helping it to spread from hedges and field margins into crops. It can form dense stands that shade out other, more delicate grasses and plants.
How to identify: Common couch has green, fat, blade-like leaves, but long, thin flower spikes. Tiny, golden spikelets appear at the ends of the stems in rows.
How to propagate: