Native Grasses of Ring Mountain

This guide includes all the native grass species known to occur at Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve.

All 21

hall's bent grass
Agrostis hallii

California brome ¹
Bromus carinatus

serpentine reedgrass ²
Calamagrostis ophitidis

tufted hair grass ³
Deschampsia cespitosa

annual hairgrass ⁴
Deschampsia danthonioides

blue wild rye ¹
Elymus glaucus

big squirreltail ⁵
Elymus multisetus

slender wheatgrass ¹
Elymus trachycaulus

beardless wild rye ⁶
Elymus triticoides

Meadow barley ⁷
Hordeum brachyantherum

California melic ⁴
Melica californica

Torrey's melicgrass ⁸
Melica torreyana

foothill needle grass ⁹
Nassella lepida

purple needlegrass ¹⁰
Nassella pulchra

Pine bluegrass ¹
Poa secunda

Festuca microstachys ¹¹

California fescue ¹²
Festuca californica

idaho fescue ¹³
Festuca idahoensis

red fescue ¹⁴
Festuca rubra

june grass ¹
Koeleria macrantha

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