Lolium temulentum L.
 
FamilyGramineae — APG family: Poaceae
Common namepoison darnel
DescriptionCulms solitary, often branched at base; annual; culms stiff, scabrous above; leaves grayish green; spikelets (awns not counted) 10-15 mm long, 4-9-flowered; the stout awn longer than the lemma.
EcologyWaste places, roadsides. Described from Europe.
UsesThe Latin and vernacular names allude to the presence of temuline in the grain, a narcotic that inhibits the power of locomotion.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.