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An ornamental form of this species with green- and cream-striped leaf blades, Phalaris arundinacea var. picta Linnaeus (丝带草 si dai cao), is sometimes cultivated in gardens.
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Reed Canary Grass is found growing on stream banks and in marshes. It is said by Hubbard to be a good grazing or hay grass when young. Probably native in Pakistan and Kashmir.
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Description
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Culms tufted with scaly, creeping rhizomes, 50-150 cm tall, glabrous. Blades 15-30 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm wide, glabrous. Sheath cylindrical; ligule acute, 2-3 mm long. Panicle branched, 5-40 cm long; lobed and branched at the base, branches erect to spreading. Spikelets ovate, 3-flowered, compressed, ovate, 3.5-7.5 mm long; glumes equal, as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, apex acute, folded, keel usually wingless or inconspituously narrowly winged. Fertile lemma 2.7-4.5 mm long,weakly 5-nerved, shiny, sparingly pubescent; palea lanceolate, 2-nerved; sterile lemma vestigial, pilose.
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Perennial, rhizomatous; rhizomes extensively spreading. Culms reedlike, erect, leafy, 0.6–1.5 m tall, 6–8-noded. Leaf sheaths glabrous, not inflated; leaf blades 10–35 cm × 10–18 mm, tapering to a fine apex; ligule 2–3 mm. Panicle contracted, linear-oblong in outline, lobed, interrupted, 8–15 cm; branches short, erect, densely spiculate. Spikelets oblong, laterally compressed, 4–6 mm; glumes narrowly lanceolate, glabrous or puberulous, pale green streaked darker green or purplish, keel scabrid, wingless or very narrowly winged upward, apex sharply acute; sterile lemmas equal, subulate, 1.5–1.8 mm, villous; fertile lemma broadly lanceolate, 3–4 mm, appressed-pubescent upward, shiny; palea boat-shaped, keels ciliolate. Anthers 2.5–3 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug. 2n = 28.
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Perennial from scaly creeping rhizomes. Culms 50-150 cm tall. Leaf-blades up to 20 cm long and 15 mm wide. Panicle 7-40 cm long, dense, lobed or interrupted, with short branches up to 5 cm long, these spreading at anthesis but otherwise contracted about the main axis. Glumes 3.5-7.5 mm long, acute, wingless or with a very narrow and inconspicuous wing on the keel; sterile florets 2, subulate, 1.2-2.3 mm long, villous; fertile floret lanceolate, 2.7-4.5 mm long, dull yellow to grey-brown, sparsely pubescent.
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Distribution
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Temperate regions of N. hemisphere.
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Distribution
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Widely distributed in the temperate parts of the northern Hemisphere.
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Distribution
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Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang (Lin'an) [widely distributed in temperate parts of the N hemisphere].
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Distribution
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Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab & Kashmir); North temperate regions, now intro¬duced to most parts of the world.
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Elevation Range
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2100 m
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. & Fr. Per.: May-July.
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Habitat
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Marshy grassland, river and lake margins, forming colonies; 100–3200 m.
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Synonym
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Typhoides arundinacea (Linnaeus) Moench.
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