Stipa mauritanica

Mauritanian grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Mauritanian grass is a naturalized perennial grass found in northern coastal California ranges in mixed-evergreen forest at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from May to November, this grass produces pale green to tan inflorescences up to 50 centimeters long in open, spreading clusters. Growing with tall stems 60 to 350 centimeters high, it has smooth, slightly grooved leaf sheaths. Its leaf blades measure up to 100 centimeters long and 3 to 9 millimeters wide, with finely serrated margins. The spikelets contain 2 to 6 florets, with delicate lanceolate glumes and hairy lemmas.

Habitat: Mixed-evergreen forest

Bloom period: May-Nov

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: NCoRI

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