Quiet Around Here

[Stolly]

Cotton grass do you mean? And most of the cotton grass at the minute is a bit greeny - brown isn't it? Cotton grass is the stuff that flowers with white tufty cotton balls in the summer.

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[Al Fowler]

Cotton grass do you mean? And most of the cotton grass at the minute is a bit greeny - brown isn't it? Cotton grass is the stuff that flowers with white tufty cotton balls in the summer.

That may be the stuff, although when i googled that, it also brought up rush grass...which seems similar but more of what im after.

[noel]

That may be the stuff, although when i googled that, it also brought up rush grass...which seems similar but more of what im after.

What you need Al is:





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GrassBase

'What's that?' you ask. It's a database of the world's grass species that can be searched using name or description.

http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html

Enjoy. I'll be asking questions later.

[Al Fowler]

What you need Al is:





[drum roll]





GrassBase

'What's that?' you ask. It's a database of the world's grass species that can be searched using name or description.

http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html

Enjoy. I'll be asking questions later.

Erm, wow...i dont know whether i should thankyou or not. It seems to be about plants fro other countries though?

[bigfella]

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Yeah, that's it, barbed wire, often silver / rust coloured but sometimes green.

[Al Fowler]

They are on this picture - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jed/Images1/DSC00514a.jpg

Good old winter hill!

[Stolly]

Thats what I call (dunno about Kew) Cotton Grass. The whole of the Dales is plastered with it.

[noel]

Having done two minutes of internet research, I now feel quite an authority on the subject.

It looks like mat grass (Nardus stricta) to me:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davejglaves/267708707/

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2255503

[noel]

Or it could be cottongrass (cheers Stolly):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Cottongrass

This grows where it's more boggy, hence it commonly being called bog cotton.

[Derby Tup]

Fascinating grass-related facts

Anyone fancy a 'Today's moorland vegetation' thread