RSA - California Botanic Garden Herbarium (RSA:VascularPlants-)
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Briza maxima L.
Poaceae
Robert A. Norris
4870
1985-05-10
United States, California, San Francisco, Mt. Davidson, San Francisco.
37.7401 -122.4532 +-150m. WGS84
Thu Dec 30 16:33:26 2010; georef from 2006-2015 archive backup file
on open, grassy, N-facing slope
Some plants few- or several-stemmed. Spikelets pale greenish, the glumes and lemmas straw-colored toward margins. Glumes dark flat above, shiny beneath, with purple spots owing, apparently, to a pathogen. Hgts. to ca, 2 ft.; Locally abundant and gregarious. Neighbors included Bromus mollis, B. diandrus, Avena barbata, Achillea borealis, and Ranunculus californicus.
flowers & fruits
herbarium sheet
Native
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Angiosperm Phenological Traits: Quality of a plant or portion of a plant that provides phenologically relevant information
Reproductive: At least one reproductive structure of any kind is present (flowers, flower buds, fruits)
Open Flower present: At least one open flower is present
Fruit present: At least one immature or mature fruit is present