Species Cards

Rye Grass

Lolium perenne

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 blue butterflies.

Habitat:

Wildflower grasslandWildflower grassland

Description:

Flower spikes are tall and straight, with diamond-shaped spikelets (the groups of tiny flowers) alternating up the stalk. The leaves are green and hairless.

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