General:
Annual, tufted, smooth or more or less rough short-hairy grass from fibrous roots; stems 1 to several, slender, delicate, hollow, 2-12 (20) cm tall.
Leaves:
Sheaths open; blades scarcely 0.5 mm wide, threadlike, in-rolled; ligules 1-3 mm long, pointed to blunt, slightly jagged tips.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a compact, congested and almost continuous, more or less spikelike panicle, mostly 1-3 cm long, the branches erect; spikelet stalks shorter than the spikelets; glumes (2.7) 3-3.2 (3.5) mm long; lemmas (2.5) 3-3.2 (3.5) mm long, usually lightly rough short-hairy, awned, the awns 2-3 mm long; anthers about 0.2 mm long.
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
281 | 0 | 2100 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
38 | 0 | 120 |
Aspect (degrees) |
135 | 10 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
1 | 0 | 6 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
B | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
95 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
CDF | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
CDF(32), CWH(18), ICH(2), MS(1) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Aspris praecox (L.) Nash