| Trisetum canescens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Trisetum |
| Species: | T. canescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Trisetum canescens Buckley |
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Trisetum canescens is a species of grass known by the common name tall trisetum. [1]It is native to western North America from Alaska and British Columbia to central California and Arizona, where it occurs in forests, mountain meadows, and streambanks, being most common among Ponderosa pines and stands of spruce and fir. It is a perennial grass forming clumps of erect stems up to 50 to 80 centimeters tall, but known to exceed one meter. There are three to four leaves per stem, the blades reaching up to 30 centimeters in length. The sheaths can be hairless to quite hairy, the hairs sometimes long and shaggy. The inflorescence is an open or compact panicle of green, tan, or purplish spikelets up to 20 centimeters long.