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porcupine grasses
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porcupine grasses

Hesperostipa

Hesperostipa is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as needle-and-thread grass or needlegrass.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Needle-and-thread Grass

speciesHesperostipa comata

porcupine needlegrass

speciesHesperostipa spartea

Western Porcupine Grass

speciesHesperostipa curtiseta

New Mexico Feathergrass

speciesHesperostipa neomexicana

Hesperostipa saxicola

speciesHesperostipa saxicola

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 157661.