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Annual hairgrass

Deschampsia danthonioides

Also called Annual Hair Grass

Annual hairgrass
Photo: Robert H. Mohlenbrock, Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass, Annual
Native range
Alaska to Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua)
Climate
temperate

About

Deschampsia danthonioides is a species of grass known by the common name annual hairgrass. It is native to western North America from the Yukon Territory and British Columbia, through California and the Western United States, to Baja California, and also to southern South America in Chile and Argentina.

The annual bunchgrass grows in moist to drying areas such as pond edges, meadows and grasslands, in various habitat types such as montane and chaparral.

Other Deschampsia plants

Deschampsia aurea · Coirón Suave · Calamagrostis teretifolia · Tussock grass · Antarctic hair grass · Scribner's Grass · Tufted hairgrass · Deschampsia chapmanii · Slender hairgrass · Slender Hair Grass · Deschampsia robusta · Deschampsia wacei

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Deschampsia danthonioides 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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