Species Cards

Cocksfoot Grass

Dactylis glomerata

Group:

Plant, Herb

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Food chain :

Producer

What it eats :

Makes its own food from carbon dioxide and water, using sunlight energy.

Eaten by:

Geese, rabbits, caterpillars, including those of meadow brown butterflies and speckled wood butterflies.

Habitat:

Wildflower grasslandWildflower grassland

Description:

A grass with bluish-green leaves. The flower spike is pyramidal and branched often into three a little like a chicken's foot.

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