I want to know if anyone could identify if this is phalaris or not. Any input would be good. I want to extract asap and this is growing in a field behind my place. Also if it is, do I just use the leaves from the stem or is the grass around it useful too? If anyone can tell me about this and if I can use it I would be very grateful. I do not want to try my first extraction on the wrong plant. Thanks for looking.

Okay, so from what I can tell this is the common phalaris arundinacea.. which does contain valuables. The bladed leaves are what you are mainly after. However, due to the high range of other unknown compounds that could be detected within wild phalaris, it is best to grow your own.

Arundinacea has been found to contain beta carbolines and tryptamines. The amount of material needed to work with this one is quite substantial.

Try growing phalaris brachystachys or aquatica which have been found to contain higher levels of tryptamines. You can do more research on phalaris within the search engine as this topic has been covered already many times.