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Danthonia compressa
Also called Flat Stem Oat Grass, Mountain Oat Grass, Flat Stemmed Oatgrass, Flattened Wild Oatgrass, Flattened Oat Grass
Danthonia compressa is a species of grass known by the common names mountain oatgrass, flattened oatgrass, and slender oatgrass.
This bunchgrass is native to eastern North America, where it can be found in eastern Canada and the Eastern United States. In the southern part of its range it is restricted to the high elevations of the Appalachian Mountains.
California oatgrass · Common heathgrass · Danthonia holm-nielsenii · Timber oatgrass · Poverty oatgrass · Onespike danthonia · Oatgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Danthonia compressa 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.
