Melica spectabilis
Melica spectabilis | |
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Secure (NatureServe) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Pooideae |
Genus: | Melica |
Species: | M. spectabilis
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Binomial name | |
Melica spectabilis Scribn.
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Melica spectabilis is a species of grass known by the common names purple oniongrass and showy oniongrass.
Distribution[]
It is native to western North America from British Columbia to northern California to the Rocky Mountains, where it grows in moist meadows, forests, and other mountainous habitat.
Description[]
Melica spectabilis is a perennial grass which varies in maximum height from under 10 centimetres (3.9 in) to nearly a meter, growing from rhizomes and stalked, onionlike corms. The inflorescence is a narrow series of spikelets which are green with evenly spaced purple bands.
External links[]
- Jepson Manual Treatment - Melica spectabilis
- Grass Manual Treatment
- Melica spectabilis - Photo gallery
Categories:
- NatureServe secure species
- Melica
- Grasses of the United States
- Grasses of Canada
- Native grasses of California
- Flora of the Western United States
- Flora of British Columbia
- Flora of the West Coast of the United States
- Flora of the Klamath Mountains
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Pooideae stubs