BENT-STEMMED FOX-TAIL-GRASS FOX-TAIL-GRASS 1872 John Edward Sowerby PLANT PRINT

Original 1872 6 1/2 inch x 9 7/8 inch coloured print titled ALOPECURUS EN-GENICULATUS. BENT-STEMMED FOX-TAIL-GRASS.

Alopecurus geniculatus is a species of grass known by the common name water foxtail or marsh foxtail. It is native to much of Eurasia and introduced into North America, South America, and Australia. It grows in moist areas.
Alopecurus geniculatus is a perennial grass forming bunches of erect stems up to about 24 inches in height. The leaves are up 5 inches in length. The pale green to purplish inflorescence is a dense panicle up to 4 or 5 inches long which blooms in dusty yellow-orange anthers. It reproduces sexually by seeds and can reproduce vegetatively by rooting at stem nodes.

Drawn by John Edward Sowerby (1825 - 1870). A British botanical illustrator and publisher born in Lambeth, London.

From a disbound copy of English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants edited by John T. Boswell Syme

Third Edition Published in London in 1872 by by Robert Hardwicke, 192 Piccadilly.

The print is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.