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Purple Small-reed

Calamagrostis canescens

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 6,605, February 4,878, March 7,643, April 12,024, May 17,337, June 18,905, July 20,229, August 17,397, September 12,773, October 9,534, November 5,210, December 4,072.
United States136,607
Alaska136,607
Russia591
Moscow Oblast114
Vladimir Oblast113
Moscow87
Kostroma Oblast63
Bryansk Oblast28
Penza Oblast27
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast23

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Restoration or landscaping useListed as being used for restoration, landscaping, ornamental planting, erosion control, soil improvement, shade, windbreaks, pollution indicators, or wastewater purification.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Grass-like growth formListed by a harvested source as having a graminoid or grass-like growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Classmonocots · Liliopsida
Ordergrasses, sedges, cattails, and allies · Poales
Familygrasses · Poaceae
GenusReedgrasses · Calamagrostis

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Practise Purple Small-reed with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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