Arrhenatherum

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 Arrhenatherum subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Arrhenatherum (Greek arren, masculine, and other, awn, in reference to the awned staminate flower). Graminex. Oat Grass. Tall perennials with flat blades and long narrow panicles: spikelets 2-fld., the lower staminate, its lemma bearing a geniculate twisted dorsal awn, the upper perfect, short-awned or awnless. Species 6, Medit. region. One species, tall oat-grass (A. elatius, Beauv.), is cult. as a meadow grass. Dept. Agric., Div. Agrost. 20:95. There has been recently intro. into the eastern states a variety (var. tuberosum, Halac. A. bulbosum, Presl ) that bears at the base of the culms a short chain of corms. A variegated form of this has been offered under the name A. bulbosum variegatum.


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