Deschampsia danthonioides
| Deschampsia danthonioides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Genus: | Deschampsia |
| Species: | D. danthonioides
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| Binomial name | |
| Deschampsia danthonioides (Trin.) Munro
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Deschampsia danthonioides is a species of grass known by the common name annual hairgrass.[1] It is native to western North America from the Yukon Territory and British Columbia, through California and the Western United States, to Baja California, and also to southern South America in Chile and Argentina.[2]
The annual bunchgrass grows in moist to drying areas such as pond edges, meadows and grasslands, in various habitat types such as montane and chaparral.
Description[edit]
Deschampsia danthonioides has stems growing solitary or in loose clumps up to 40 to 60 centimeters tall. The inflorescence is a narrow to open array of thin branches bearing small V-shaped spikelets.[3]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Jepson Manual Treatment: Deschampsia danthonioides
- USDA Plants Profile: Deschampsia danthonioides (annual hairgrass)
- Grass Manual Treatment: Deschampsia danthonioides
- CalFlora database — Deschampsia danthonioides (annual hairgrass)
- Deschampsia danthonioides — U.C. Photo gallery
Categories:
- Deschampsia
- Bunchgrasses of North America
- Bunchgrasses of South America
- Native grasses of California
- Grasses of the United States
- Grasses of Canada
- Grasses of Mexico
- Grasses of Argentina
- Flora of the Western United States
- Flora of Baja California
- Flora of British Columbia
- Flora of Yukon
- Flora of the West Coast of the United States
- Flora of California
- Flora of the Andes
- Flora of the Rocky Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Flora of Chile
- Pooideae stubs