Synonym: Festuca fluitans; Poa fluitans; Panicularia fluitans.
English: Floating Sweet-grass; Water mannagrass
Genus: 44 species; in Melicae with Lycochloa, Melica, Pleuropogon, Schizachne, Triniochloa.
Region: Europe, Mediterranean, Western Asia.
Botany: habitat wet areas,ditches, riverbank, ponds, Purple moor grass and rush pastures; creeping rootstock, stem thick up to 1 metre; leaves long, narrow, pale green, rough on both sides, often folded at the keel which lies on the surface of the water.