View source for Aristida californica

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|accepted_name=Aristida californica
|accepted_authority=Thurb.
|publications=
|common_names=Mojave threeawn
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae;Poaceae tribe Aristideae;Aristida;Aristida 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. Aristidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Aristideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aristida]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Aristida californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 319
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; sometimes flowering the first year. <b>Culms</b> 10-40 cm, highly branched above the base in age; internodes glabrous or pubescent, sometimes nearly lanose. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths shorter than the internodes, glabrous or puberulent; collars glabrous or pubescent at the sides; ligules 0.5-1 mm; blades usually less than 6 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, pale green, involute, glabrous or puberulent abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate or racemose, 5-10 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, with few spikelets; rachis nodes glabrous or with straight hairs; primary branches 1-2 cm, appressed, without axillary pulvini. <b>Spikelets</b> appressed. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, 1-2-veined; lower glumes 4-10 mm; upper glumes 7-15 mm; calluses about 1 mm; lemmas 5-7 mm, purple or mottled, junction of the lemma and awns evident; awns twisted together basally into a 4-26 mm column, free portions 12-50 mm, those of the central and lateral awns similar in length, curved to arcuate basally, straight and divergent distally, disarticulating at the base of the column at maturity; anthers 3, about 2 mm long. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Ariz.
|discussion=<p>The range of both varieties of <i>Aristida californica</i> extends from the southwestern United States into northwestern Mexico.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Cauline internodes puberulent to nearly lanose
|[[Aristida californica var. californica|Aristida californica var. californica]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Cauline internodes glabrous
|[[Aristida californica var. glabrata|Aristida californica var. glabrata]]
|}
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name=Aristida californica
|author=
|authority=Thurb.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Ariz.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Aristideae
|genus=Aristida
|species=Aristida californica
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