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Grasses and Grass-like Plants, Part 2
Dactylis to Phleum

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Image 1. Orchard grass, Dactylis glomerata

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Image 2. Squirreltail, Elymus elymoides. There are a number of subspecies.

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Image 3. Possibly a species of Eriophorum, or Cotton grass, in the Sedge family

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Image 4. Possibly a species of Festuca, or Fescue, in the family Poaceae

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Image 5. Velvet grass, Holcus sp.

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Image 6. Barley, Hordeum sp.

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Image 7. Drummond's rush, Juncus drummondii

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Image 8. One of the rushes, Juncus sp.

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Image 9. One of the rushes, Juncus sp.

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Image 10. One of the rushes, Juncus sp.

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Image 11. Goldentop grass, Lamarckia aurea
Photo from the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Thank you to Susan Bainbridge for the identification.


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Image 12. Luzula sp. The genus is known as hairy wood rush.

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Image 13. Nodding melica, or rock melicgrass, Melica stricta

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Image 14. Deergrass, Muhlenbergia rigens
The genus is generally referred to as Muhly


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Image 15. Purple needlegrass, Nassella pulchra

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Image 16. Western wheatgrass, Pascopyrum smithii, in the family Poaceae

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Image 17. Mountain Timothy, Phleum alpinum

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Image 18. Mountain Timothy, Phleum alpinum

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Image 19. Cultivated Timothy, Phleum pratense

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