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Melica nutans

mountain melic

Other common names
mountain melick
nodding melic
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Botanical details
Family
Poaceae
Native to the UK
No
Genus

Melica

Genus description

Melica are deciduous, clump-forming perennial grasses with soft, linear leaves and arching stems bearing narrow panicles of flattened flowering spikelets in summer

Name status

Correct

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