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Salina wildrye
Leymus salina
Leymus salina is a species of grass known as Salina wildrye, Salina Pass wildrye, and saline wildrye. It is native to the western United States and is named for its type locality: Salina Pass, Utah.
From the article Leymus salina on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Salina wildrye is a perennial grass forming dense clumps of stems up to 1.4 meters in height. It sometimes has rhizomes. The leaves are mostly located around the bases of the stems. The inflorescence is a spike with spikelets mostly solitary or sometimes paired. Each spikelet contains up to 6 flowers.
Range & habitat
This plant grows in a number of habitat types in the western United States. It is sometimes a dominant species in pinyon-juniper woodlands and Gambel oak woodlands. In Colorado it is often codominant with Wyoming big sagebrush, shadscale, and Gardner's saltbush.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
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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 960140.