Group: Monocot Rank: species Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, A, 19     

Published In: Species Graminum Stipaceorum 75. 1842. (Sp. Gram. Stipac.)

Type-Protologue

Distribution: Canada

Type Specimens

• LT: Drummond s.n.; ; Canada: Saskatchewan: Carlton House Fort ad fl. Saskatchawan (LE; ILT: US-78614 (fragm.)) LT designated by Hitchcock, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 24(7): 232 (1925)
• ST: Douglas; ; ad ripas et in planitie fl. Columbia prope "Missouri Portage"

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
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• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Poales Small
• family:  Poaceae Barnhart
• genus:  Stipa L.

Combinations for this basionym:

Hesperostipa comata (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth Phytologia 74(1): 16. 1993. (Phytologia)

Common Names:

• Needle-and-thread (English, United States)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1951. (none). Man. Grasses U.S. (ed. 2) 1–1051.