Poaceae
Pickering's reedgrass
Calamagrostis pickeringii
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Calamagrostis
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Calamagrostis pickeringiiPoaceae
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Pickering's reedgrass
Synonyms
- Agrostis neogaea Steud.
- Calamagrostis breviseta (A.Gray) Scribn.
- Calamagrostis breviseta var. debilis Kearney
- Calamagrostis pickeringii f. pickeringii
- Calamagrostis pickeringii f. vivipara Louis-Marie
- Calamagrostis pickeringii var. debilis (Kearney) Fernald & Wiegand
- Calamagrostis pickeringii var. pickeringii
- Calamagrostis sylvatica var. breviseta A.Gray
- Deyeuxia pickeringii (A.Gray) Vasey
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native, St. Pierre and Miquelon: native
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.