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Widespread but local throughout the South becoming scarce further north and away from the coast. Habitat includes: Dry, scarcely vegetated places such as alls, rocky grassland, rocky outcrops, sandy banks, stabilised shingle, old quarries, walls, roadside verges, railway banks, wasteland, pavements etc. Growing habit: Annual. 2 subspecies and two varieties: Catapodium rigidum ssp. hemipoa, Catapodium rigidum ssp. rigidum, Catapodium rigidum var. majus, Catapodium rigidum var. rigidum.