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Calamagrostis koelerioides
Calamagrostis koelerioides is a species of perennial bunch grass in the family Poaceae native to western North America commonly known as the fire reedgrass, dense-pine reedgrass, pineland reedgrass, or San Diego reedgrass. It ranges from California north to Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. It is found in many habitat types, including mountain meadows, chaparral, pine and spruce forests, and on slopes, dry hills, and ridges.
Calamagrostis koelerioides is native to the western United States. It shares a partial sympatric distribution with its close relatives C. foliosa and C. ophitidis in Northern California and the California Coast Ranges, but extends further north to the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. It is also found further south in the Peninsular Ranges of Southern California. Ira Loren Wiggins reported C. koelerioides (as C. densa) for northern Baja California, but there are no recorded specimens that verify his claim.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calamagrostis koelerioides 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.
