Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium


  Piptatheropsis canadense (Poir.) Romasch., P.M.Peterson & R.J.Soreng image
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Family Poaceae
Piptatheropsis canadense (Poir.) Romasch., P.M.Peterson & R.J.Soreng
Canada mountain rice grass, Canadian rice grass
Piptatheropsis: Greek pipto for "to fall" and opsis for "like" or "resembling"
canadense: of or referring to Canada
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Status: Special Concern
Plant: perennial grass
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Drawing by Agnes Chase from Norman C. Fassett's Grasses of Wisconsin
Synonyms 
Oryzopsis canadensis (Poir.) Torr.
Stipa canadensis Poir.
         
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