Parapholis incurva
# Parapholis incurva

Parapholis incurva is a species of grass native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa, and widely naturalised elsewhere. Common names include coast barbgrass, curved sea hard grass, curved hard-grass, sicklegrass, curved sicklegrass and curved parapholis.

## Description

It is a tufted annual bunchgrass up to 30 centimetres high, with green flowers.

## Taxonomy

It was first published as Aegilops incurva by Carl Linnaeus, and transferred into Parapholis by Charles Edward Hubbard in 1946.

## Distribution and habitat

It is widespread in the old world, occurring in northern Africa, Europe, and Asia. It has widely naturalised elsewhere.

