Common Name

Hairy Flowered Woollybutt; Woollybutt; Woollybutt Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Perennial grass 20-80cm tall. Leaves with a woolly sheath at the base. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaves 5-10cm long, 1-3mm wide, flat, rolled, or the edges rolled inwards, surface hairless, and rough. Spikelets purplish, 6-37mm long. Mature seed groups cylindrical to spreading. Seeds with 0 bristles.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 102

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eragrostis~laniflora

ausgrass2 description, photos, and line drawings: http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/eragrostis-laniflora