Trisetum spicatum (L.) Richter
Detail
- Family
- Poaceae
- Botanical Name
- Trisetum spicatum (L.) Richter
- Common Name
- Narrow False Oats, Alpine Oatgrass, Spike Trisetum
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Trisetum spicatum (L.) Richter
- Comments
- A circumboreal species of arctic and alpine habitats, known in VA from a single high-elevation site, where significantly disjunct from its principal northern range (also historically disjunct to Roan Mtn, North Carolina); undoubtedly a Pleistocene relict in Virginia.
- Habitat
- Shelves of a massive, north-facing metabasalt cliff at ca. 1160 m. elev. Rare, known only from Hawksbill Mountain on the Northern Blue Ridge (Page County, Shenandoah National Park).
- Native Status
- Native
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