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Danthonia intermedia
Also called Vasey's Oatgrass, Vasey's Wild Oatgrass, Intermediate Oatgrass, Intermediate Oat Grass, Timber Oat Grass
Danthonia intermedia is a species of grass known by the common names timber oatgrass, intermediate oatgrass, and mountain wild-oat grass. This clumping erect perennial grass is native to North America, where it is widespread across most of Canada and along the western United States into California. It is a plant of the plains as well as forested, mountainous, alpine environments.
The bunchgrass reaches about half a meter in height at maximum. Its leaves are short and mostly basal. Each inflorescence is a narrow cluster of up to about ten spikelets, each spikelet holding 3 to 6 florets. The flowers are cleistogamous, meaning they remain closed and pollinate themselves. This grass also sometimes undergoes apomixis, reproduction without fertilization.
California oatgrass · Flattened oatgrass · Common heathgrass · Danthonia holm-nielsenii · Poverty oatgrass · Onespike danthonia · Oatgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Danthonia intermedia 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.
