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King's eyelashgrass

Blepharidachne kingii

Also called King's Eyelash Grass, Eyelash Grass

King's eyelashgrass
Photo: Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase)., Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
W. U.S.A.
Climate
subtropical

About

Blepharidachne kingii is a species of grass known by the common name King's eyelashgrass. It is native to the Great Basin in the United States, where it grows in habitat such as pinyon-juniper woodland. It is rare in California and Idaho, but it is one of the most common grasses of the northeastern deserts of Nevada.

Other Blepharidachne plants

Bigelow's desertgrass · Desertgrass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Blepharidachne kingii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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