Cock's-foot
Dactylis glomerata L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 80 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Poaceae
Formerly Bromus glomeratus, Festuca glomerata, Koeleria dactylis, Limnetis glomerata, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Medit. to Temp. EurasiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 1.4 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- German
- Knäuelgras
- Dutch
- Kropaar, kropaar
- Czech
- srha laločnatá
- Welsh
- Troed y ceiliog
- Finnish
- niittykoiranheinä
- French
- dactyle vulgaire
- Chinese
- 鸭茅
- Simplified Chinese
- 鸭茅
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 鴨茅
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Dactylis glomerata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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