Plants and animals of Pointfield

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

Grasses 

Wheat

Triticum aestivum


Appearance

Distinctive fat seed head with green-yellow striped glumes: lower glumes keeled in upper part only. Well developed awl terminally. Leaves rather coarse and striped. Ligule short and flat-ended. Auricles wrapping around stem. Stem hollow.

Habitat

One plant only under the cut-leaf beech (2023) and under leyladii cypress (2024).


Months in flower