Japanese name: ヤマカモジグサ（山髢草） Scientific name:Brachypodium sylvaticum
[Overview]
A perennial 40–80 cm tall, found in woods and on dry cliffs.
It has a short rhizome and often forms large clumps.
It does not produce stolons.
The stems grow in tufts, are slender and hard, and the nodes are densely covered with short downward-pointing hairs.
The leaves are linear, 10–25 cm long and 0.5–1 cm wide, and twist over near the base so that the upper and lower sides are reversed; the original underside faces upward and is glossy.
Hairs are usually dense on both sides of the leaves, on the margins and on the leaf sheaths, but the amount of hair varies greatly between individuals.
A racemose flower spike 7–13 cm long emerges at the stem tip, bearing about 5–12 spikelets sparsely, and its tip droops in an arch.
The spikelets are 1.5–3 cm long, pale green, and have a short, thick stalk about 1 mm long.
The spikelets consist of 5–14 florets; the lemma is about 1 cm long, slightly glossy, has 7–9 veins, and bears an erect, straight awn 7–13 mm long at the upper end.
The lemma is almost the same length as the palea.
