What's on my grass?

[cluelessgardener101]

This could be a super silly question but I am a total novice with garden queries.

Why is my grass flowering?

Here's a pic...

https://www.gfloutdoors.com/grass-flowering-most-common-reasons-and-what-to-do-about-it/

Is it not just the grass itself flowering?

Grass is a flowering plant and that’s just what it is doing! Perfectly normal at this time of year. Mowing will remove most flowering stems.

I have never been told grass flowers so this is wonderful to learn, thank you both!

I don't mind at all but I was curious if this is normal as I don't think I've ever seen it before

Have you seen the tall grasses like Miscanthus which have been popular in flower beds for a while, with their plumes of flowers on top? Your grass is doing the same. Looks like a Poa. If you left your grass unmown, you would see the different flowers of all the different species in there. You could have Agrostis (Bent) with incredibly delicate flowers, Festuca (Fescue) with similar flowers to Poa, Lolium perenne (Perennial Rye Grass with stiff flat flower heads, Alopecurus (Foxtail, with soft silky flower heads like a fox tail). There’s a world of beauty in there!

Yes, grass flowers. The pollen produced by grass is what gives people hay fever.

Have you heard of No Mow May?

Its where we are encouraged to keep the grass longer to give the grasses and lawn weeds a chance to grow and flower to provide for the early insects and bees.

I read that a shorn lawn without weeds is like a desert to insects etc. They are all part of the food chain up to birds and hedgehogs.

So by letting your grass flower you are doing a wonderful thing for wildlife. I’m sorry to all the hay fever sufferers, I thought it was pollen from all sorts of things, I didn’t realise it was grass.

Yes, hay fever is just an allergy to pollen -any or all pollen.
I'm most allergic to tree pollen, but also to other pollens.

Though they seem to be calling it allergic rhinitis now, so also encompassing airborne dust, moulds etc.

OP have you seen pampas grass? That's a massive flowering grass!

All plants and trees flower!

@Joystir59 I didn't know if it was weeds or normal

It’s all sorts that affect hay fever sufferers. The name obviously refers to grass, but willow is a major culprit early in the year.

Not strictly. Conifers don’t have true flowers, and ferns, mosses, seaweeds, horsetails don’t have flowers.