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Purple False Oats

Graphephorum melicoides

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Quebec.January 3, February 3, March 4, April 10, May 19, June 13, July 11, August 10, September 8, October 7, November 4, December 4.
Canada258
Quebec96
Ontario85
United States65
Newfoundland and Labrador52
Michigan39
Nunavut15
New Brunswick10
Wisconsin9
Vermont6

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

Classification

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

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