Wood Millet
Wood Millet - Milium effusum
Loosely tufted erect grass to 120 cm tall. Leaves flat 5 to 15 mm wide. Inflorescence is a loose, whorled, spreading panicle 10 to 40 cm long and to 20 cm wide, with long fine branches. Spikelets are narrow-ovoid, pointed 3 to 4 mm long.
Old woodlands.
May to July.
Perennial.
Fairly common in southern Britain, scarcer to the north and west.
Fairly frequent in wooded areas of Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 90 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Freeholt Wood, Sapcote
26 May 2016
Graham Calow
Nailstone Colliery site
12 May 2016
David Nicholls
Ratby
09 June 2012
AJ Cann
Priors Coppice
15 May 2016 Freeholt Wood Sapcote SP 4609 9399 (taken 23.7.2008)..JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
23 July 2008
Graham Calow
Near Nailstone
12 May 2016
 Freeholt Wood Sapcote SP 4609 9399 (taken 23.7.2008)..JPG)
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Epichloe typhina fungus galls the stems of various grasses, the gall often having a rather tubular appearance. It is white in the early stages, yellowing when mature. On various grasses including many of our most common species including Sweet Vernal-grass, False Oat-grass, Cock's-foot, Perennial Rye-grass, Wood Millet, Timothy and Rough Meadow-grass.