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Agrostis hooveri

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Species of flowering plant

Agrostis hooveri
Conservation status

Imperiled  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Agrostis
Species: A. hooveri
Binomial name
Agrostis hooveri
Swallen

Agrostis hooveri is a species of grass known by the common name Hoover's bent grass. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from western San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties.

Description

It grows in woodland and chaparral in hilly terrain. This is a perennial grass growing in tufts 30 to 80 centimeters tall. The inflorescence is an array of thin branches bearing tiny spikelets each a few millimeters long.

References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".

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Taxon identifiers
Agrostis hooveri


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