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Family: Poaceae
northern reedgrass
[ Calamagrostis californica Kearney, moreCalamagrostis canadensis var. arcta Stebbins, Calamagrostis chordorrhiza A.E.Porsild, Calamagrostis crassiglumis Thurb., Calamagrostis fernaldii Louis-Marie, Calamagrostis hyperborea Lange, Calamagrostis hyperborea var. americana (Vasey) Kearney, Calamagrostis hyperborea var. elongata Kearney, Calamagrostis hyperborea var. stenodes Kearney, Calamagrostis inexpansa var. barbulata Kearney, Calamagrostis inexpansa var. brevior (Vasey) Stebbins, Calamagrostis inexpansa var. cuprea Kearney, Calamagrostis inexpansa var. novae-angliae Stebbins, Calamagrostis inexpansa var. robusta (Vasey) Stebbins, Calamagrostis labradorica Kearney, Calamagrostis lacustris (Kearney) Nash, Calamagrostis lapponica var. brevipilis Stebbins, Calamagrostis pickeringii var. lacustris (Kearney) Hitchc., Calamagrostis scopulorum var. bakeri Stebbins, Calamagrostis stricta subsp. inexpansa (A.Gray) C.W.Greene, Calamagrostis stricta var. brevior Vasey, Calamagrostis stricta var. lacustris (Kearney) C.W. Greene] |
Culms slender, 4-10 dm, from creeping rhizomes; sheaths and blades scabrous, the collar usually shortly bearded; blades firm, 2-4 mm wide; infl 8-15 cm, tawny to purplish, rather dense; glumes firm, rather broad, 3.5-4.5 mm, scabrous; lemma 3.5 mm, scabrous, the awn inserted near the base, about equaling the lemma, evidently geniculate near the middle, twisted below; callus-hairs in 2 tufts, half to three-fourths as long as the lemma; palea nearly equaling the lemma; 2n=84-120. Mossy rocky and marshy meadows and sandy shores; Nf. and Que. to Vt. and N.Y., w. to Mich. and Minn. (C. fernaldii)
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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