Piptatherum
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 Piptatherum paradoxum
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Piptatherum is a genus of grasses known as ricegrass. They are widely distributed throughout the temperate and subtropical areas of the world, but most are native to Eurasia. These are clumping perennial grasses with long, tapering leaf blades.
Selected species:
- Piptatherum aequiglume
- Piptatherum canadense - Canadian ricegrass
- Piptatherum coerulescens
- Piptatherum exiguum - little ricegrass
- Piptatherum micranthum - littleseed ricegrass
- Piptatherum miliaceum - smilograss
- Piptatherum munroi
- Piptatherum paradoxum
- Piptatherum pungens - mountain ricegrass, sharp pipthatherum
- Piptatherum racemosum - blackseed ricegrass
- Piptatherum shoshoneanum - Shoshone ricegrass
