Photo Credit: Tall oatgrass plants © F and K Starr

Photo Credit: Tall Oatgrass Inflorescence © Sten Porse

Photo Credit: Tall Oatgrass, bulbous variety © Dominique Jacquin

Stout perennial grass with stems that are sometimes hairy at the nodes and often swollen and bulb-like at the base.  Leaves are flat, roughened and often hairy.  Inflorescences are erect, narrow, silvery-green at flowering and later purplish and shiny.  It is a grass of early summer (June or July).

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