Foynes Port - three grasses for ID please

[JennyS]

Below are three grasses I came across when wandering round Foynes port, I'm not good with grass IDs so help is much appreciated!

Q1. Is this a large Rat's-tail Fescue, Vulpia myuros? Approx 50cm length.


Q2. Apologies for very poor photo quality but I'm pretty sure I don't recognise this one:


Q3. Another unfamiliar grass


Thanks in advance,
Jenny

[Dorts]

Jenny
I'm afraid I cant help much with these.
I am happy with 1. Rat's-tail Fescue, Vulpia myuros. A very distinctive grass, can't really be anything else.
But the other two are of that large group of Bromus, Bromopsis, Anisantha.
They are all so variable (and we are always told not to pick any atypical plants for ID. from this group).
2. looks like it could be a very starved Anisanthera sterilis, but that single awn is very misleading, I've seen plants like this before but have always had to walk away from them, could yours be a 'foreigner'?
3. looks like Anisanthera diandra, but that appears not to have been recorded in that part of Ireland.
Dorts.

[Dorts]

Sorry Jenny
I don't know where I got Anisanthera from, (It was getting rather late!)
I of course meant Anisantha.
Dorts.

[JennyS]

Thanks Dorts - I've remembered why I avoid grasses whenever possible!

One or both could well be foreigners so I'll either send them to the CR with the Senecio specimen or run them past a botanically-minded friend when I next see him.