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Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv.  

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Family: Poaceae
bluejoint, more...Macoun's reedgrass
[Calamagrostis anomala Suksd., moreCalamagrostis atropurpurea Nash, Calamagrostis canadensis var. acuminata Vasey ex Shear & Rydb., Calamagrostis canadensis var. imberbis (Stebbins) C.L.Hitchc., Calamagrostis canadensis var. lactea (Beal) C.L.Hitchc., Calamagrostis canadensis var. macouniana (Vasey) Stebbins, Calamagrostis canadensis var. pallida (Vasey & Scribn.) Stebbins, Calamagrostis canadensis var. robusta Vasey, Calamagrostis canadensis var. scabra (J.Presl) Hitchc., Calamagrostis cinnoides W.P.C.Barton, Calamagrostis lactea Beal, Calamagrostis macouniana (Vasey) Vasey, Calamagrostis nubila Louis-Marie, Calamagrostis scribneri Beal]
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Paul Rothrock
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Culms 5-15 dm, often branched above, smooth, clustered on creeping rhizomes; sheaths glabrous or nearly so; ligules 3-8 mm; blades scabrous on both sides, flat, 4-8 mm wide; infl somewhat nodding, 8-25 cm, open or fairly dense, but not contracted, the longer branches 3-8 cm; spikelets 2-6 mm; glumes subequal or the second slightly longer, acute to acuminate, rounded or keeled, glabrous to scabrous-puberulent on the sides; lemma nearly or quite smooth, translucent at the dentate or erose tip, three-fourths to fully as long as the glumes; awn delicate, erect, straight or nearly so, inserted near the middle of the lemma; callus-hairs abundant, nearly as long as the lemma; rachilla-vestige 0.1-0.3 mm, hairy throughout; 2n=42-66. Open swamps, wet meadows, and prairies, or moist or wet soil in the mts.; Greenl. to Alas., s. to N.C., Mo., and Ariz. Highly variable, but not readily divisible into vars. (C. macouniana, the small-fld extreme; C. langsdorffii, the large-fld extreme; C. nubila)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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