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Wood Millet - Milium effusum
Loosely tufted erect grass to 120 cm tall. Leaves flat 5 to 15 mm wide. Inflorescence is a loose, whorled, spreading panicle 10 to 40 cm long and to 20 cm wide, with long fine branches. Spikelets are narrow-ovoid, pointed 3 to 4 mm long.
Old woodlands.
May to July.
Perennial.
Fairly common in southern Britain, scarcer to the north and west.
Fairly frequent in wooded areas of Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 90 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Wood Millet
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Poaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 35
- First record:
- 27/05/2000 (MBNHS;Steve Woodward)
- Last record:
- 07/06/2023 (Alton, John)
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