Calamagrostis canadensis

Bluejoint reedgrass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bluejoint reedgrass is a native perennial grass found in wetland and meadow habitats across cool temperate regions. Flowering from June to August, this grass produces delicate purple-tinged spikelets in open to dense inflorescences 10 to 25 centimeters long. Growing in dense tufts with sturdy rhizomes 2 to 15 centimeters long, the grass develops stems 60 to 150 centimeters tall that branch below multiple nodes. Its leaf blades are 3 to 8 millimeters wide, slightly drooping and flat, with scabrous (rough) surfaces and ligules 3 to 8 millimeters long that are irregularly cut. The grass produces delicate lemmas with short awns just below the middle, giving the inflorescence a soft, feathery appearance.

California counties: Tulare, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Siskiyou, Trinity, Tuolumne, Sierra, Alpine, Tehama, Merced, Lassen, Glenn, Del Norte, Madera, Plumas, Shasta, Amador

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