Australian Sweet-grass -native (Glyceria australis)

Native. Perennial. C3.

Family. Poaceae (Grass family).

Australian Sweet-grass is a semi-aquatic. It is a tall grass and grows in wet places in water such as in shallow steams or in swamps.

Identifiication:

• the flower cluster is a raceme (i.e. an unbranched flower spray) or a few-branched narrow panicle
• the glumes are shorter than the lemmas
• the spikelets are elongated with about 5-14 florets which are awnless
• the lemmas are strongly veined
• the leaves are flat or loosely rolled
• the ligules are membranous and 5-11mm long.

Glyceria: sweet, the first named species is a source of sweet juicy fodder australis: southern.