Awnless Blown-grass

Scientific Name:	Lachnagrostis leviseta	Awnless Blown-grass - large population Photo: A J Brown
Status:	Indigenous to western Victoria. Only recently described.
Plant Description:	Tufted, erect, hairless perennial grass to 65 cm tall with, smooth, inrolled, bluish-green, leaves to 20 cm long (but often less than 10 cm) and less than 1 mm wide; ligule membranous, acute, 5-6 mm long. Inflorescence, a purple, erect, open and broad panicle to 25 cm long, well exserted from the leaf sheath. Spikelets small (3.5-4 mm long), purple on short fine stalks. Each spikelet with a single, hairy, floret without an awn or bristle or with a minute awn to 0.3 mm near the tip of the floret.
Habitat:	Only found on saline drainage lines and flats to the west of the Grampians. Often in association with Adamson’s Blown-grass (L. adamsonii).
Comments:	Similar appearance to Common Blown-grass. A simplified key to some of the species on salt-land can be accessed here - Blown-grass species key

Awnless Blown-grass - panicle
Photo: A J Brown

Awnless Blown-grass - panicle - close
Photo: A J Brown