Rare grass in the Netherlands

Posted on September 22, 2014 by petrel41

Tragus racemosus

Translated from the Dutch FLORON botanists:

Saturday, September 20th, 2014

This summer Willemien Troelstra discovered a blade of grass unknown to her in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. On closer examination that turned out to be Tragus racemosus grass, an annual grass that had surfaced a few times before in the Netherlands, including nine years ago … in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht!

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IdealisticRebel on September 22, 2014 at 8:37 pm said:

Now this is really cool. Thank you for telling us about it. Hugs, Barbara

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- petrel41 on September 23, 2014 at 6:22 am said:
  
  My pleasure 🙂 Many people overlook grasses, yet they play an important role in ecology.
  
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