Deschampsia elongata

Deschampsia elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Deschampsia
Species: D. elongata
Binomial name
Deschampsia elongata
(Hook.) Munro

Deschampsia elongata is a species of grass known by the common name slender hairgrass.[1] It is native to western North America from Alaska to Wyoming to northern Mexico, and South America in Chile. It grows at all elevations, often in moist areas. It is a perennial grass forming dense clumps sometimes exceeding a meter in height. Most of the leaves are located in a tuft about the base of the stems.[2] The inflorescence is a thin row of V-shaped spikelets arranged parallel to and mostly flat against the stem.[3]

Individual clump. 
Flowering stems. 

References

  1. ↑ "Slender Hairgrass".
  2. ↑ "Slender Hairgrass_USDA NRCS_Plant Fact Sheet" (PDF).
  3. ↑ "slender hairgrass_Deschampsia elongata (Hook.) Munro" (PDF).

External links

Wikispecies has an entry on: Deschampsia elongata.


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