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Calamagrostis canadensis ~ blue-joint grass

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Characteristics:
  • OBL
  • Michigan C Value: 3
  • Heads pointed up
  • extremely long, narrow leaves with long , narrow tips
  • leaves often point upward
  • rough edge of leaves
  • tiny, 1-flowered spikelets
  • leaves roll up forming narrow pointed end
  • tuft of little white hairs on bottom of lemma
  • short translucent ligule (3mm)
  • variable charachteristics
  • lemma has very thin texture
  • panicle mostly open and loosely ascending to spreading when mature
  • marshes, shores, wet prairies, bogs, swales, along streams
  • can be a dominant grass of marshes and fens
  • native
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