Agrostis thurberiana

Definition of the noun Agrostis thurberiana

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Agrostis thurberiana is a species of Agrostis.

• synonyms: species Agrostis thurberiana / Agrostis atrata / species Agrostis atrata / Agrostis hillebrandii / species Agrostis hillebrandii / Podagrostis thurberiana / species Podagrostis thurberiana
• kingdom: Plantae
• phylum: Tracheophyta
• class: Liliopsida
• order: Poales
• family: Poaceae
• genus: Agrostis
• observational distribution: specimen and observational data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Network (not necessarily true occurrence density gradients)

  

Agrostis thurberiana is a kind of Podagrostis.

• kingdom: Viridiplantae
• phylum: Streptophyta
• class: Liliopsida
• order: Poales
• family: Poaceae
• genus: Podagrostis
• species: Podagrostis thurberiana

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CRC World Dictionary of Grasses (2006)

Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology - 3 Volume Set by Umberto Quattrocchi

humilis Vasey (Agrostis thurberiana A.S. Hitchc.; Podagrostis humilis (Vasey) Björkman; Podagrostis thurberiana (A.S. Hitchc.) Hultén) British Columbia, California, Oregon, Sierra Nevada. Perennial, tufted, no auricles, open sheaths, ligule ...

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Agrostis thurberiana

This Agrostis species is about 30-40 cm tall, few stems bunched together and bearing mostly stem leaves, and the spikelets have a single floret with an awned lemma and a very well developed palea. It is essentially a taller statured lower elevation form of Agrostis humilis.

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