Elymus repens, Couch grass - Seeds - plants - dried herbs

Common names: Couch grass, Common couch, Twitch, Quick grass, Quitch grass, Dog grass, Quackgrass, Scutch grass, Witchgrass

Botanical name & synonyms: Elymus repens, Agropyron repens, Elytrigia repens, Elytrigia vaillantiana, Triticum repens, Triticum vaillantianum, Zeia repens

Family: Gramineae, true grasses (Poaceae)

• Northern hemisphere
  

• perennial
  

• 30 to 150cm
  

• flower VI to VIII
  

• plant community: waste ground, ruderal
  

• medicinal plant (graminis rhizoma)
  

• culinary herb
  

• weight of 1 000 seeds = 3 gram