Calflora: Calamagrostis stricta ssp. inexpansa

Calamagrostis stricta (Timm) Koeler ssp. inexpansa (A. Gray) C.W. Greene

Narrow spiked Reedgrass, Thurber's Reed grass, northern reedgrass

Calamagrostis stricta ssp. inexpansa, a monocot, is a perennial herb (rhizomatous) that is native to California and is also found elsewhere in North America and beyond.

Communities:	Freshwater Wetlands, Northern Coastal Scrub, Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Forest, Subalpine Forest, wetland-riparian
Affinity to serpentine soil: 1.5 (weak indicator) [Safford et al 2005]
Habitat:	freshwater-marsh [Walker]
Wetlands:	Usually occurs in wetlands, but occasionally found in non wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 4500 and 11000 feet
Family:	POACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Calamagrostis found in California.
	See the more inclusive parent record Calamagrostis stricta.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Calamagrostis californica
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis inexpansa var. brevior
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis inexpansa var. novae-angliae
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis labradorica
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis lacustris
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis lapponica var. brevipilis
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis pickeringii var. lacustris
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis robertii
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis stricta var. brevior
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis inexpansa var. barbulata
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis hyperborea var. stenodes
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis canadensis var. acuminata
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis canadensis var. arcta
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis chordorrhiza
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis expansa
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis fernaldii
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis hyperborea var. americana
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis hyperborea var. elongata
PLANTS:	Calamagrostis stricta var. lacustris
TJM2 + PLANTS:	Calamagrostis crassiglumis
TJM2 + PLANTS:	Calamagrostis inexpansa

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alpine: 2 / 2 CCH Del Norte: 7 / 3 CCH El Dorado: 8 / 6 CCH Fresno: 6 / 6 CCH Humboldt: 3 / 2 CCH Inyo: 13 / 11 CCH Lassen: 5 / 5 CCH Madera: 6 / 3 CCH Mendocino: 6 / 3 CCH Mono: 15 / 13 CCH Modoc: 1 / 1 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 1 CCH Marin: 15 / 13 CCH Plumas: 2 / 2 CCH Santa Barbara: 1 / 1 CCH Shasta: 1 / 1 CCH Sierra: 2 / 2 CCH Sonoma: 4 / 1 CCH Tulare: 12 / 9 CCH Tuolumne: 16 / 11 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Calamagrostis stricta ssp. inexpansa from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (CASTI3)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database