Calflora: Imperata brevifolia

Imperata brevifolia Vasey

California satintail, satintail

Imperata brevifolia, a monocot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

It is included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 2.1 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA; common elsewhere). 7th Edition / 8th Edition

Communities:	Chaparral, Coastal Sage Scrub, Creosote Bush Scrub, wetland-riparian
Wetlands:	Equally likely to occur in wetlands or non wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 1640 feet
Family:	POACEAE

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:

Imperata hookeri

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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.

Butte: 6 / 3 CCH Fresno: 7 / 2 CCH Imperial: 2 / 0 CCH Inyo: 12 / 7 CCH Kern: 3 / 1 CCH Lake: 3 / 2 CCH Los Angeles: 15 / 11 CCH Riverside: 11 / 7 CCH Santa Barbara: 2 / 0 CCH San Bernardino: 34 / 23 CCH Sonoma: 2 / 0 CCH Tehama: 1 / 0 CCH Tulare: 7 / 4 CCH Ventura: 14 / 8 CCH

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

Information about Imperata brevifolia from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (IMBR2)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
CNPS Inventory of rare and endangered plants
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