Deschampsia elongata

Deschampsia elongata
Deschampsia elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Deschampsia
Species: D. elongata
Binomial name
Deschampsia elongata
(Hook.) Munro

Deschampsia elongata is a species of grass known by the common name slender hairgrass. It is native to western North America from Alaska to Wyoming to northern Mexico, and South America in Chile. It grows at all elevations, often in moist areas. It is a perennial grass forming dense clumps sometimes exceeding a meter in height. Most of the leaves are located in a tuft about the base of the stems. The inflorescence is a thin row of V-shaped spikelets arranged parallel to and mostly flat against the stem.
Individual clump.  
Flowering stems. 

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