Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Common Name
Type
Notes
Caespitose perennial to 1 m high. Leaves with sheath loose, keeled, glabrous, or with a few tubercle-based hairs; ligule 0.5-2 mm long, ciliolate; blade 2-4 mm wide, glabrous or with sparse tubercle-based hairs. Racemes 3-5, erect, appressed or slightly spreading when dry, 3-8 cm long, bearded in the axils; joints and pedicels with hairs to 4.5 mm long. Sessile spikelets lanceolate, narrowed from shortly below the middle, acute; callus bearded with hairs to 1 mm long. Lower glume shortly scabrous on the keels and otherwise smooth, pilose on the back in the lower 30%, usually pitted above the middle; upper glume scaberulous near the tip. Lower lemma ovate to lanceolate to oblong; obtuse, c. 60% as long as the glumes; upper lemma 1.75-2 mm long, stipe-like; awn 1.5-2.5 cm long, geniculate. Stamen 1. Pedicellate spikelet
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