Trisetum cernuum |
Trisetum aureum |
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nodding false oat, nodding oatgrass, nodding trisetum |
golden oatgrass |
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Habit | Plants perennial, with both fertile and sterile shoots; cespitose, not rhizomatous. | Plants annual, without sterile shoots; tufted. |
Culms | (30)50-110 cm, clumped, erect, glabrous or pubescent. |
7-30 cm, glabrous, erect, spreading, or geniculate. |
Sheaths | somewhat inflated, glabrous or villous; blades to 10 cm long, to 3 mm wide, flat, subglabrous to villous. |
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Leaves | 2-3 per culm; sheaths scabridulous or pilose; ligules 1.5-3 mm, truncate, erose to lacerate; blades (8.5)15-20+ cm long, (3)7-12 mm wide, flat, ascending, lax at maturity, often scabridulous. |
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Panicles | 10-30 cm long, (1)2-9 cm wide, open, nodding, green or tan, occasionally purple-tinged; branches 2-12+ cm, most, except sometimes the uppermost, spikelet-bearing only towards the apices, with the basal (1/5)1/3-1/2 bare, filiform, flexuous, at least the lowest 1-3 whorls spreading or drooping. |
1-5 cm long, 0.5-3 cm wide, pyramidal to ovoid, dense, shiny, yellowish to tan. |
Spikelets | 6-12 mm, subsessile to pedicellate, pedicels to 2 cm, usually with 2-3 functional florets below 1-2 reduced florets; rachilla internodes and hairs 1-2.5 mm; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the florets. |
2.5-3.5 mm, with 2-3 florets. |
Glumes | unequal; lower glumes 0.75-2(3) mm, subulate; upper glumes 3.5-5 mm long, shorter than the lowest florets, 2-3 times as wide as the lower glumes, widest at or above the middle, ovate or obovate, rounded to the acuminate apices; callus hairs to 1 mm; lemmas 5-6 mm, broadly lanceolate, glabrous, bifid, teeth to 1.3 mm, awned, awns (7)9-14 mm, arising from above midlength to just below the teeth, exceeding the lemma apices, arcuate to flexuous; paleas shorter than the lemmas; anthers about 1 mm. |
unequal; lower glumes 2-2.5 mm long, narrower than the upper glumes, 1-veined; upper glumes 2.5-3 mm, 3-veined; callus hairs 0.3-0.4 mm; lemmas 1.6-2.7 mm, glabrous or hairy, with wide hyaline margins, apices bifid, teeth to about 0.5 mm, awned, awns 2-6 mm, arising from above midlength and exceeding the apices, slightly bent; anthers 1-1.5 mm. |
Caryopses | 2.5-3.2 mm, densely to sparsely pubescent. |
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2n | = 42. |
= unknown. |
Trisetum cernuum |
Trisetum aureum |
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Distribution |
NJ |
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Discussion | Trisetum cernuum grows in moist woods, on stream banks, lake and pond shores, and floodplains of the western Flora region. The hairiness of the leaf sheaths varies, often within a plant. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Trisetum aureum is native to the Mediterranean region. It was collected from a ballast dump in Camden, New Jersey, in 1896 (Hitchcock 1951), and has not been reported since from the Flora region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 24, p. 748. | FNA vol. 24, p. 753. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Poeae > Trisetum | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Poeae > Trisetum |
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Synonyms | T. nutkanense | |
Name authority | Trin. | (Ten.) Ten. |
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