''Danthonia unispicata'' 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 onespike oatgrass, or onespike danthonia. It is sometimes treated as a variety of ''

Danthonia californica ''Danthonia californica'' is a species of grass known by the common name California oatgrass. This plant is native to two separate regions of the Americas, western North America from California to Saskatchewan, and Chile. Description ''Danthonia ...

'', to which it is similar. It is native to western North America, where it grows in several types of habitat, including grassland and open areas in mountain forests. It is a perennial

bunchgrass Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...

growing in clumps 10 to 30 centimeters tall, with very hairy, rolled leaves. 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 ...

bears a single spikelet, or sometimes up to four spikelets.

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Calflora Database: ''Danthonia unispicata'' (One spiked oatgrass)Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatmentUSDA Plants ProfileGrass Manual TreatmentPhoto gallery
unispicata Bunchgrasses of North America Native grasses of California Grasses of the United States Grasses of Canada Flora of the Western United States Flora of Western Canada Flora of the Great Basin Flora of the Klamath Mountains Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) {{Poaceae-stub