Vernal grass, also known as Sweet Vernal grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) is a common British grass found growing in moorlands, at roadsides, on rough ground, etc. Vernal grass tolerates a wide variety of soil types. It produces stems between about 25 and 40 cm tall with a spike about 5 cm long and leaves about 4 mm wide. The spikelets narrow with hairs up one edge but not the other, crow around the stem and are about 7 or 8 cm long. Vernal grass flowers early in the year and has the scent of new-mown hay. Research Vernal Grass
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