Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 3272, Poa interior.  
 

 

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Photographed 21 November 2024.

Plants of the Coal Creek Canyon Study Area
Jefferson County Open Space, Colorado, USA
Poaceae

Poa interior Rydb. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32:604 (1905).  Inland Bluegrass.

Coal Creek Canyon Study Area, Lacey Parcel, Jefferson County, Colorado. Second primary drainage of Lacey parcel, about 280 m. southwest of Coal Creek, 1.67 km. west northwest of Coal Creek Canyon Fire Station #3, 15.0 km. northwest of Golden. 39.87722°N, 105.29641°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 2106 m. Douglas fir forest, also here: Physocarpus montanus, Viola canadensis, and Maianthemum racemosum ssp. amplexicaule.

Collected by permit: Jefferson County Open Space, 2024, issued: Mar 6, 2024, to: Tom Schweich.

Tom Schweich 3272. 21-Jun-2024

Coll. No. 3272, 21 June 2024, characters observed: Perennial grass, 35 cm., not obviously rhizomatous, not rooting at lower nodes; Leaves, Sheath, 65 mm., open, keel not winged, Ligule, membranous, 1.5 mm.; Blade, 95 mm. × 2.2 mm. wide, flat; Inflorescence, 1 per culm, > leaves, panicle, 120 mm. × 37 mm. wide, branched 3×, > capillary; Rachis, not extended, minutely scabrous; Spikelets, many, 3 mm. × 0.8 mm. wide, similar, borne singly, pedicels 2-6 mm.; Compression, lateral±; Glumes, lower, 2.5 mm., veins 3, upper, 3 mm., <lowest floret, veins 3, keeled, awns 0; Florets, 3 per spikelet; Lemma, 2.8 mm., >glumes, keeled, proximally sparsely cobwebby, intercostal glabrous, veins 3, awns 0; Palea, 2 mm., < lemma; Anthers, 1 mm.

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