Schizachne purpurascens
false melic, false melic grass, purple false-melic, schizachne pourpre
(30)50-80(110) cm, sometimes slightly decumbent at the base, otherwise erect.
7-13(17) cm, open or closed, often reduced to racemes in depauperate plants.
11.5-17 mm.
glabrous, acute;
lower glumes 4.2-6.2 mm, faintly (1)3-5-veined;
upper glumes 6-9 mm, faintly (3)5-veined;
lemmas 8-10.5(12) mm;
awns 8-15 mm, as long as or longer than the lemma bodies, somewhat twisted and divergent or slightly geniculate;
anthers 1.4-2 mm.
0.5-1.5 mm;
blades 2-4(5) mm wide, glabrous or adaxial surfaces pilose.
= 20.
Schizachne purpurascens
In North America, Schizachne purpurascens grows in moist to mesic woods, from south of the tree line in Alaska and northern Canada through the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico in the west, and to Kentucky and Maryland in the east.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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