Seeds on stems. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Seeds on stems. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Base. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Buck Wanderrie Grass; Woollybutt Wanderrie; Woollybutt; Wanderrie Grass; Woollybutt Wanderrie Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Perennial grass 40-90cm tall, sometimes sprawling.  Leaves with a woolly sheath at the base.  Ligule a fringe of hairs.  Leaves 2.5-16cm long, to 3mm wide,  flat or the edges rolled inwards, narrowly rolled when dry, rough, hairy or hairless, with a straight firm point.  Spikelets  pale to straw-coloured or yellowish, 5-7mm long, hairy.  Mature seed groups cylindrical to spreading. Seeds with no bristles.

Description and photo of seeding plant in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 106

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

ausgrass2 description, photos, and line drawings:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/eriachne-helmsii