10 points if you can identify this UK plant?

Question

- it grows in gardens and near concrete

- it looks rather like wheat

-children sometimes pull out the long 'ears' and use them as darts (they are pointed and sticky)

what the h**l are they?

sorry, i have no photo

Answer 1

It is a kind of grass.

Answer 2

Sounds like a type of grass to me,maybe a type of marsh land grass.Or wild wheat.

Answer 3

Based on your description, and without a photo, it sounds like wild oats.

Answer 4

sticky pompoms?? i used to pay with those and stick them on people. My teacher used to call it sticky rhubarb.....i dunnooooo....?

Answer 5

i think this might be them, its called wild barley

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1160/7529...

Answer 6

Do you have a bird seed-feeder nearby?

I get quite a lot of something sounding like these from "fall-out" - a member of the grasses family.  Never checked to see which it is.

Answer 7

It's called 'wild barley', hordeum murinum is the botanical name.

Answer 8

I remember playing with those. It is a kind of grass but have no idea what it is called.

Answer 9

RYE grass