Flora of North America species comparison

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Cottea pappophoroides

cotta grass
Culms

25-70 cm.
Blades

5-15 cm long, 4-7 mm wide.
Panicles

8-15 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, green or purplish;

branches loosely ascending.
Spikelets

5-10 mm (including the awns).
Glumes

4-5 mm;

lemmas 3-4 mm, conspicuously long-pilose basally, awns and teeth more or less alternating.
Caryopses

about 1.5 mm, plump, elliptical;

embryos about 1/2 as long as the caryopses.
2n

= 20.

Cottea pappophoroides
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX
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Discussion

Cottea pappophoroides grows on open hillsides from Arizona and Texas south to central Mexico, and from Ecuador to Argentina.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 25, p. 289.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Pappophoreae > Cottea
Name authority Kunth
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