Blooms: June - July
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: British Columbia south, east of the Cascades, to southern California, east to Ontario, Maine, and most of the United States except the extreme southeast.
Habitat: Sagebrush desert, especilly where sandy, to the foothills and grassland.
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: British Columbia south, east of the Cascades, to southern California, east to Ontario, Maine, and most of the United States except the extreme southeast.
Habitat: Sagebrush desert, especilly where sandy, to the foothills and grassland.
Species Description:
General: Strongly tufted perennial, the culms 3-7 dm. tall, solid and grooved.
Leaves: Sheaths open, mostly glabrous, with hairs at the throat; ligules 0.5-0.7 mm. long; blades involute, 2-4 mm. broad, mostly smooth, but with long, soft hairs along the margins bordering the ligule.
Flowers: Inflorescence a moderately-open panicle 10-20 cm. long, partially included in the sheath, the branches simple to again branched, spikelet-bearing to near the base, stiffly ascending; spikelets 1-flowered; glumes 1-nerved, acute, unequal, the first about 1 mm. long, the second twice as long; lemma 2-2.5 mm. long, acute, 1-nerved, awnless and glabrous, about equaled by the 2-nerved palea.
General: Strongly tufted perennial, the culms 3-7 dm. tall, solid and grooved.
Leaves: Sheaths open, mostly glabrous, with hairs at the throat; ligules 0.5-0.7 mm. long; blades involute, 2-4 mm. broad, mostly smooth, but with long, soft hairs along the margins bordering the ligule.
Flowers: Inflorescence a moderately-open panicle 10-20 cm. long, partially included in the sheath, the branches simple to again branched, spikelet-bearing to near the base, stiffly ascending; spikelets 1-flowered; glumes 1-nerved, acute, unequal, the first about 1 mm. long, the second twice as long; lemma 2-2.5 mm. long, acute, 1-nerved, awnless and glabrous, about equaled by the 2-nerved palea.
Accepted Name:
Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) A. GraySynonyms:
Agrostis cryptandra Torr.
Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray ssp. fuscicola (Hook.) E.K. Jones & Fassett
Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray var. fuscicola (Hook.) Pohl
Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray var. occidentalis E.K. Jones & Fassett
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Sporobolus cryptandrus
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Sporobolus cryptandrus specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Sporobolus cryptandrus specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Sporobolus cryptandrus treatment.
E-Flora BC: Sporobolus cryptandrus atlas page.
CalPhotos: Sporobolus cryptandrus images.
USDA Plants Database: Sporobolus cryptandrus.
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