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A spike with long thin spikelets in two rows up the stem. Leaf blades stiff, without long hairs. Visible awns. Mostly glabrous. Prickle hairs only on edges of leaf. (Tor-grass is sometimes treated as a sub-species of B. pinnatum, which has prickle hairs all over underside of leaf and is mostly pubescent.)

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1. (c) Ruth Ripley, all rights reserved, uploaded by Ruth Ripley
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• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Calflora
• CalPhotos
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Jepson eFlora
• NBN Atlas
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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