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Sacramento Orcutt grass

Orcuttia viscida

Sacramento Orcutt grass
Photo: Carol Witham, Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
California (Sacramento Co.)
Climate
temperate

About

Orcuttia viscida is a rare species of grass known by the common name Sacramento Orcutt grass.

Where it grows

It is endemic to Sacramento County, California, where it grows only in vernal pools, a rare and declining type of habitat. As of 1997, two of the nine known populations had been extirpated as habitat has been consumed for urban development, and it was federally listed as an endangered species.

Other Orcuttia plants

California Orcutt grass · San Joaquin Valley Orcutt grass · Hairy Orcutt grass · Slender Orcutt grass · Orcutt grass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Orcuttia viscida 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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