Trisetum melicoides (Michx.) Scribn.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Culms 4–8 dm, glabrous or scaberulous; sheaths usually glabrous; blades 3–6 mm wide, scaberulous or sparsely pilose; infl slender, 8–20 cm, the lower branches sometimes 5 cm; spikelets 2-fld or rarely with a much reduced third fl; glumes widest near or below the middle, scabrous on the keel only, the first 1-veined, 4–5.6 mm, the second 3 veined, 5–7 mm; rachilla-joints 1.3–2 mm, thickly beset with white hairs of about the same length; lemmas acute, undivided, awnless. Moist gravelly or rocky soil, usually in woods; Nf. and Que. to Ont., Mich., and Wis.