Stats

Lifespan: Perennial
Size: Large
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Temperate grassland
Range: Eurasia, North Africa
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Common

About

A cool-season perennial bunch grass native to Europe and Asia, now widespread across temperate regions worldwide. It forms dense tussocks with distinctively flattened stems and tightly clustered seed heads — a notorious hay-fever trigger during its early-summer flowering.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Dactylis
Species: Dactylis glomerata