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Botanical details
- Family
- Poaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- 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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