Natural history of Pointfield

An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso from 2015

Thumbnail index to grasses and bamboos

[For alphabetic listing click here]

Native grasses and sedges

Common bent
Agrostis capillaris
Meadow foxtail
Alopecurus pratensis
Barren brome
Anisantha sterilis
Sweet vernal grass
Anthoxanthum odoratum
Quaking grass
Briza media
Pendulous sedge
Carex pendula
Crested dog's tail
Cynosurus cristatus
Cock's foot
Dactylis glomerata
Beared couch grass
Elymus caninus
Couch grass
Elytrigia repens
Red fescue
Festuca rubra
Sheep's fescue
Festuca ovina agg.
Yorkshire fog
Holcus lanatus
Perennial rye
Lolium perenne
Field wood rush
Luzula campestris
Annual meadow grass
Poa annua
Meadow fescue
Schedonotus pratensis
Timothy grass
Phleum pratense
Two-rowed barley
Hordeum distichon
Bread wheat
Triticum aestivum
Yellow oat grass
Trisetum flaviscens

Ornamental grasses, sedges and bamboos

Black bamboo
Phyllostachys nigra
Weeping bronze sedge
Carex flagellifera
Blue fescue grass
Festuca glauca
Red cloud miscanthus
Miscanthus sinensis
Fountain grass, Red head
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Fountain grass, Hameln
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Golden oats
Stipa gigantea
Ponytails
Stipa tenuissima