Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Slender tussock-forming perennial to 1.1 m high; culms wiry, simple to fastigiately branched, lower internodes delicately hirsute. Leaves with sheath smooth, lower ones often pilose to hirsute; ligule to 0.5 mm long; blade flat or conduplicate, curly on drying, 1--2 mm wide, scabrous, sometimes pilose near the ligule. Panicle contracted, loose, interrupted, often nodding, 10--45 cm long, branches filiform. Glumes very narrow-ovate, equal or unequal, lower acuminate, upper abruptly acuminate. Lemma linear-elliptic, 6.5--10 mm long, purple or pallid with darker spots; awns stiff or filiform, dissimilar, to 18 mm long. Flowering: summer.
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