Aira caryophyllea
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Aira caryophyllea is a species of grass
known by the common name silver hairgrass. This is a species which is native to Europe but has been introduced to other continents, including North America, where it is naturalized and common. This is a light green grass which has a silvery sheen on its spikelets
before it dries and becomes straw-colored to white. The spikelets are borne on a spreading panicle
inflorescence.
Poaceae
The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
known by the common name silver hairgrass. This is a species which is native to Europe but has been introduced to other continents, including North America, where it is naturalized and common. This is a light green grass which has a silvery sheen on its spikelets
Raceme
A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne...
before it dries and becomes straw-colored to white. The spikelets are borne on a spreading panicle
Panicle
A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes....
inflorescence.