Botanical name: Koeleria spicata    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Trisetaria spicata, Aira spicata, Trisetum spicatum

Spike Junegrass is a clustered perennial grass with stems 8-50 cm high, erect, finely velvet-hairy with short reflexed hairs especially below the inflorescence. Leaf-blades are 4-10 cm long, 1-3.5 mm wide, flat or somewhat convolute, hairy to rough. Flowers are borne in panicles ovoid to cylindrical, dense but sometimes interrupted, the axis and branches finely velvet-hairy, 1.5-7.5 cm long. Spikelets are 2-3-flowered, 4-7.5 mm long excluding the awns; glumes almost equal or unequal, elliptic, pointed, the lower 1-3-nerved, 3.5-5 mm long, the upper 4-6.5 mm long; lemma elliptic, 4-5.5 mm long; awn 2.5-6.5 mm long, strongly recurved. Spike Junegrass is widespread in the Temperate world in Eurasia, SE Australia, New Zealand, America. In India it is found in the Himalaya, at altitudes of 1900-5600 m. Flowering: July-August.

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