Plants of the Castlemaine District

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*Phalaris aquatica Phalaris
Tall Grass. Flower cluster 1cm to 15cm long. Spikelets are strongly flattened. The glumes have are winged (i.e. with acute central keel). The glumes are un-notched.

*Phalaris paradoxa Par-adoxical Canary-grass.
Like Phalaris but shorter (to 90cm) and with a usually shorter flower cluster. The fertile spikelets are surrounded by clusters of sterile spikelets. The glumes are notched. Not common.

*Sporobolus africanus Rat-tail Grass.
Smallish grass. Flower cluster is very narrow and spike-like. The first glume is blunt and the upper sharp-pointed. The lemma is shorter and blunt. Occasional weed.

*Polypogon viridis Water Bent.
Wetland plant. Glumes are not awned. Resembles an Agrostis in that the membranous lemma is smaller than the enclosing glumes. It differs in that the spikelets of Water-bent fall off intact at maturity.

*Tribolium acutiflorum Desmazeria.
Small grass. Flower cluster 1cm to 15cm long. Spikelets are 3-8 flowered. The glumes are shorter than the spikelets. The lemmas have thick (often club-shaped) hairs their lower parts. Occasonal weed.

*Triticum aestivum Wheat.
Flower cluster a dense spike i.e. flowers are stalkless. Glumes often taper to a point. Spikelets several flowered.