''Eriocoma pinetorum'' is a species of
grass known by the common names pinewoods needlegrass and pine needlegrass. It is native to most of the western United States from
California to
Montana to
New Mexico, where it grows in woodland and forest in rocky mountainous areas.
Description
''Eriocoma pinetorum'' is a perennial
bunchgrass
Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...
forming tight bunches of erect stems generally between 10 and 50 centimeters tall. The hairlike leaf blades are under a millimeter wide.
The
inflorescence is up to about long and branched but with the branches running parallel against the main stalk. Each spikelet is coated densely in long hairs and has an
awn
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up to long with two kinks in it.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment - ''Achnatherum pinetorum''USDA Plants Profile: Achnatherum pinetorum''Achnatherum pinetorum'' - Photo gallery
Bunchgrasses of North America
Native grasses of California
Grasses of the United States
Grasses of Mexico
Flora of the Western United States
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
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