''Helictotrichon pratense'', known as meadow oat-grass,
is a
species of perennial
flowering plant in the grass family
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
, found in temperate parts of
Europe,
North Africa, and
Asia. Its culms are erect and 30–85 cm long; leaves are mostly basal. It is restricted to shallow, calcareous soils such as those formed on chalk and limestone substrates.
Synonyms
* ''Arrhenatherum pratense'' (L.) Samp.
* ''Avena pratensis'' L.
* ''Avenochloa pratensis'' (L.) Holub
* ''Avenula pratensis'' (L.) Dumort.
* ''Avenula pratense''
* ''Helictochloa pratensis'' Romero Zarco
References
See also
GrassBase entry*
* Rzut. Oka Jeogr. Fiz. Wol. Pod. 10. 1828
* Roser, M. 1995. Taxon 44:395.
* Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
'Avenula pratensis'' (L.) Dumort.
* Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
pratense
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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