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A spike, with spikelets all round the stem. Awns absent or very small. Spikelet at least twice as long as wide. No distinctive smell or taste. Leaf blades ribbed above, stiff, pointing upwards, blade less than 2.5mm wide. Uncommon, calcareous grassland.

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1. (c) Ruth Ripley, all rights reserved, uploaded by Ruth Ripley
2. (c) Ruth Ripley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Calflora
• CalPhotos
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Jepson eFlora
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• NBN Atlas
• OregonFlora.org
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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