Trisetum wolfii
Wolf's false oat, Wolf's False Oat
Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Wolf's false oat is a California native perennial found in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains and high montane regions of California in open, dry meadows and conifer forests at elevations of 1,740 to 3,300 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces pale greenish-yellow to pale golden flowers in compact, narrow panicles 3 to 9 centimeters long. Growing in dense clumps with stems 30 to 80 centimeters tall, it spreads through short underground rhizomes and forms tufted clusters. Its leaves have narrow blades 2 to 7 millimeters wide with short ligules 1 to 5 millimeters long, typically arising from the base of the plant in dense, upright formations. The plant's spikelets feature lanceolate glumes that are acute and delicate, with lower glumes 4 to 6 millimeters long and upper glumes 5 to 7 millimeters long.
Habitat: Open, generally dry sites, meadows, conifer forest
Bloom period: Jun-Sep
Elevation: 1740-3300 m
Bioregions: CaRH, c&s SNH
California counties: Fresno, Siskiyou, Modoc, Nevada, Tuolumne, El Dorado, Inyo, Madera, Placer, Shasta, Mono, Butte, Mariposa, Tulare, Alpine, Lassen
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.