Phalaris minor Retz.
A tufted annual or biennial, with erect or ascending stems 10 to 100 cm tall. Leaf blade up to 30 cm long, 1.4 cm wide; smooth or slightly rough-hairy. Ligule blunt, about 1 cm long. Inflorescence a dense, cylindrical panicle 2 to 6 cm long, with numerous overlapping spikelets. Spikelets all fertile; 4.5 to 5.5 mm long, 2.5 to 3 mm wide; flattened, more or less obovate, whitish with green veins. Glumes 4.5 to 5.5 mm long and 1.2 to 1.6 mm wide, narrowly oblong, with two green veins; winged on the keels in the upper part, with the wings generally toothed. Lemmas 2.5 to 3 mm long.
Local: Rare in Gibraltar. Found mainly on waste ground and in scattered places around Gibraltar. Grows as a casual on pastures, waysides and dry bare ground.
Global: Found throughout the Mediterranean region, southern Europe, north Africa, west and south-west Asia, and the Canary Islands.
Flowers in April, May June.