Calflora: Achnatherum diegoense

Calflora

Taxon Report 67

Achnatherum diegoense (Swallen) Barkworth (not an active name; please see Stipa diegoensis)

San diego county needle grass, San diego county needlegrass

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Achnatherum diegoense, a monocot, is a perennial grass that is native to California and Baja California.

It was included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list [4.2] (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA; common elsewhere). 7th Edition / 8th Edition


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Plant Characteristics
and Associations

Family:	POACEAE
Genus:	Achnatherum

Communities:

Chaparral, Coastal Sage Scrub

Distribution by County

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Name Status:

Accepted by PLANTS + JM93
TJM2 + CNPS accepted name:	Stipa diegoensis

Alternate Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:

Stipa diegoensis

NOTE: Achnatherum diegoense is not an active name in the Calflora species table.

More information about Achnatherum diegoense


	Location Suitability Nursery / seed vendor availability from CNPLX Commercial availability unknown. Landscaping information from Calscape Photos on CalPhotos / Google Images		Records from the Consortium of California Herbaria Original Publication citation (ITIS) USDA PLANTS Profile (ACDI10)		Search the International Plants Names Index Search efloras.org (Flora of North America) Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center website references from Google

Suggested Citation

Calflora: Information on California plants for education, research and conservation,
with data contributed by public and private institutions and individuals, including the Consortium of California Herbaria.
[web application]. 2017. Berkeley, California: The Calflora Database [a non-profit organization].
Available: http://www.calflora.org/ (Accessed: Jul 14, 2017).

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