Botanical name: Phleum pratense    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Phleum vulgare, Phleum fallax, Phleum nodosum

Timothy Grass is a loosely or densely clustered perennial grass, with stems 6-150 cm high, erect or geniculately rising up, the lower nodes sometimes swollen and tuberous. Leaf-blades are up to 45 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, rough on both sides or only in the upper part and on the margins; upper sheaths slightly inflated; ligule 1-6 mm long, blunt. Flower panicles are 2-11 cm long, 4-12 mm wide, cylindrical, green often tinged with purple. Spikelets are 2-5.5 mm long (including awns); glumes flat, stiffly fringed with hairs on the keel, the lower softly hairy on the margins; awn 0.2-2 mm long; lemma two-thirds to three-quarters the length of the glumes, 5-7-nerved, minutely hairy; anthers about 2 mm long. Timothy Grass is widespread from Azores, Morocco, Europe to Siberia and W. Himalaya.

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