Grasses on Cley Hill

From a trip up there this morning. The photos are, to put it kindly, impressionistic.

Cley Hill is an isolated chalk capstone on a greensand ridge. Hence the conifers and rhododendrons of the Longleat estate, in the distance.

Upright Brome (Bromus erectus) .  Always described as a "coarse" grass, but it's one of the most delicate of coarse grasses.

Beneath it, Quaking-grass (Briza media)  and Crested Dog's-tail (Cynosurus cristatus)

Small Timothy, or Smaller Cat's-tail. Phleum pratense ssp. bertolonii , sometimes called Phleum bertolonii.

Yellow Oat-grass (Trisetum flavescens), I reckon.

Crested Hair-grass (Koeleria macrantha)  .... but I didn't recognize it at the time, previously I had always seen the spike in its more open state.




There were some other common grass species around that I didn't bother to photograph, as not being specially associated with chalk grassland.  For instance, quite a lot of Cocksfoot, usually small and often with only a single toe;  Yorkshire Fog, in damper spots; Perennial Rye-grass here and there....