Photo
Details - ©Nicky Davis
Located July 27, 2008, near first restroom on way to Mirror Lake
Characteristics
A perennial
rhizome growing from 12 to 7 feet tall, leaves are broad, flat leaves
from 5 to 25 mm. wide with a hollow stem. They form clumps up to
three feet wide. Spikelets are 3-flowered and occur on a
narrow panicle 2 to 12 inches long. There are native and
nonnative canary grasses.
This grass has been used as a host plant for some skippers. For sample,
click on
Ochlodes sylvanoides napa
Polites
draco
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