''Agrostis blasdalei'' is a species of

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

known by the common name Blasdale's bent grass. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the coast of northern

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, where it grows in habitat along the immediate coastline, such as dunes and bluffs.

Description

It is a perennial grass growing in tufts up to 30 centimeters tall. It has short, thready leaves a few centimeters long. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is a thin cylindrical array of tiny spikelets, each up to 4 millimeters in length.

References

External links

Jepson Manual TreatmentBlasdale bentgrass (AGBL)
on USDA Plants Profile
Photos of ''agrostis blasdalei''
on CalPhotos, UC Berkeley blasdalei Endemic flora of California Native grasses of California {{Pooideae-stub