View source for Danthonia californica

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|accepted_name=Danthonia californica
|accepted_authority=Bol.
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|common_names=California oatgrass
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Danthonia macounii
|authority=unknown
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|name=Danthonia californica var. americana
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Danthonioideae;Poaceae tribe Danthonieae;Danthonia;Danthonia californica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Danthonioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Danthonieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Danthonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Danthonia californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 305
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>(10)30-130 cm, disarticulating at the nodes at maturity. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pilose, upper sheaths usually glabrous or unevenly pilose; blades 10-30 cm long, (1)2-5(6) mm wide, flat to rolled or involute, glabrous or pilose, uppermost cauline blades strongly divergent to reflexed at maturity. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually racemose, with (2)3-6(10) widely-spreading spikelets; branches flexible, strongly divergent to reflexed at maturity, pulvini usually present at the base; pedicels on the lowest branch longer than the spikelets, often crinkled. <b>Spikelets</b> (10)14-26(30) mm. <b>Calluses</b> of middle florets usually longer than wide, concave abaxially; lemma bodies 5-10 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose over the back, margins pubescent (rarely glabrous), apical teeth (2)4-6(7) mm, aristate; awns (7)8-12 mm; anthers to 4 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 2.5-4.2 mm long, 1.3-1.6 mm wide. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mass.;N.Mex.;Wash.;Utah;Calif.;Oreg.;Alta.;B.C.;Sask.;Mont.;Wyo.;Colo.;Ariz.;Idaho;Nev.;S.Dak.
|discussion=<p><i>Danthonia californica</i> grows in prairies, meadows, and open woods. It has a disjunct distribution, one por¬tion of its range being located in western North America, the other in Chile. An introduced population has been found at Mansfield, Massachusetts.</p><!--
--><p>Plants with pilose foliage have been called <i>Danthonia californica</i> <i></i></i>var.<i><i> americana</i> (Scribn.) Hitchc. and plants with sparsely pilose lemma backs <i>D. californica</i> <i></i></i>var.<i><i> macounii</i> Hitchc, but the variation does not appear to be taxonomically significant.</p>
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name=Danthonia californica
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|authority=Bol.
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|synonyms=Danthonia macounii;Danthonia californica var. americana
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Mass.;N.Mex.;Wash.;Utah;Calif.;Oreg.;Alta.;B.C.;Sask.;Mont.;Wyo.;Colo.;Ariz.;Idaho;Nev.;S.Dak.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Danthonioideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Danthonieae
|genus=Danthonia
|species=Danthonia californica
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