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|accepted_name=Nardus
|accepted_authority=L.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Nardeae;Nardus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Nardeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nardus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 62
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 3-60 cm, erect; basal branching intravaginal. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal; sheaths open; auricles absent; ligules membranous, entire, rounded; blades filiform, tightly convolute, epidermes with bicellular microhairs. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal spikes, 1-sided, spikelets in 2 rows, loosely to closely imbricate; rachises terminating in a bristle; disarticulation below the floret. <b>Spikelets</b> triangular in cross section, with 1 floret, floret bisexual. <b>Lower</b> glumes a highly reduced, cupular rim; upper glumes absent or vestigial; florets 5-10 mm; lemmas linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, chartaceous, enveloping the paleas, 3-veined, awned; paleas hyaline, 2-veined, 2-keeled; lodicules absent; anthers 3; styles 1. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.H.;Mass.;Mich.;Oreg.;N.Y.;Vt.;Greenland;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Idaho
|discussion=<p><i>Nardus</i> is a monospecific European genus. Its relationships to other genera are unclear.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=hubbard1984a
|text=Hubbard, C.E. 1984. Grasses: A Guide to their Structure, Identification, Uses, and Distribution in the British Isles, ed. 3, rev. J.C.E. Hubbard. Penguin Books, Hammondsworth, Middlesex, England and New York, New York, U.S.A. 476 pp.
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|id=turin1980a
|text=Turin, T.G. 1980. Nardus L. P. 255 in T.G. Turin, V.H. Heywood, N.A. Burges, D.M. Moore, D.H. Valentine, S.M. Walters, and D.A. Webb (eds.). Flora Europaea, vol. 5. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. 452 pp.
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name=Nardus
|author=Mary E. Barkworth;
|authority=L.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=N.H.;Mass.;Mich.;Oreg.;N.Y.;Vt.;Greenland;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Idaho
|reference=hubbard1984a;turin1980a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Nardeae
|genus=Nardus
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