Flora of New Zealand Series

Culm nodes glabrous, or occasionally hairy; internodes glabrous, basal internodes of uniform width throughout, sometimes with sparse, long, retrorse hairs.

N.: western areas; S.: common to locally abundant throughout; C. Along roadsides and railway lines, on clay banks, in waste ground, paddocks and sometimes on dune margins, or a garden weed; sea level to montane.

Naturalised.

Spikelets rarely proliferate, e.g., CHR 96196 V. D. Zotov Wellington, Jan. 1943, in which many spikelets are 3-flowered.

Indigenous to Europe, western Asia and North Africa; now naturalised and widespread in temperate regions of both Hemispheres.