Danthonia intermedia subsp. intermedia

Intermediate oat grass, Intermediate Oat Grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Intermediate oat grass is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California coast ranges, high Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada Mountains, and North Coast Ranges in meadows, bogs, and moist forest habitats at elevations of 1,460 to 3,450 meters. Flowering from July to August, this grass produces delicate pale flowers in compact narrow clusters 2 to 5 centimeters long. Growing with slender stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it forms dense tufted clumps with primarily basal leaves. Its narrow leaves are ascending, 5 to 10 centimeters long, slightly rolled inward, and generally glabrous except near the leaf base. Each spikelet features distinctive hairy lemmas with small teeth and an elegant 5 to 9 millimeter awn.

Habitat: Meadows, bogs, damp banks, moist forest

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 1460-3450 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, MP

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.