Dactylis glomerata L.
(Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesDactylis glomerata (Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot)
GenusDactylis (cock’s-foot grasses)
TribePoeae (a tribe of grasses)
SubfamilyPOOIDEAE (a subfamily of grasses)
FamilyPOACEAE (grasses, couch)
OrderPOALES (grasses, sedges & rushes)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Dactylis glomerata (Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot) :
1: Dactylis glomerata (Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot)
8 Sep 2003 OSGR: SW97 50° 30’ N, 4° 50’ W Vice County: West Cornwall (VC 1) England
viviparous form
Image 1: Spike - enlargedImage 2: Spike - enlarged (2)Image 3: Spike - enlarged (3)Image 4: Spike - enlarged (4)Image 5: Spike - enlarged (5)Image 6: Spike - enlarged (6)Image 7: Spikelets - enlargedImage 8: Spikelets - enlarged (2)Image 9: Spikelets - enlarged (3)Image 10: Spikelets - enlarged (4)Image 11: Spikelets - enlarged (5)Image 12: Spikelets - enlarged (6)
2: Dactylis glomerata (Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot)
20 Jun 1974 OSGR: SE34 53° 50’ N, 1° 30’ W Vice County: Mid-west Yorks (VC 64) England
Image 1: Flowers at anthesisImage 2: InflorescenceImage 3: Inflorescences

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Oliver, J.E. 2007 Minuscule flowering plantlets within Cock’s-foot inflorescences BSBI News 106: 12.

Dactylis glomerata (Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Dactylis glomerata (Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 51 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Dactylis glomerata (Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)