French Oat-grass Gaudinia fragilis Gáidín Family: Poaceae Flowering June-July. Annual or biennial. Introduced. Identified by Paul Green Flowerheads in narrow spikes with two opposite and alternating rows of small spikelets, the flowers with bent awns. Tufts of flat, +/- downy leaves with downy sheaths. Originally from southern Europe. Infrequently recorded in Ireland on roadsides, also found in old pastures in Co. Limerick.

     






French Oat-grass, Gaudinia fragilis. On roadside wall, Rock Island, Co. Cork. June 2009