Melica spectabilis
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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Melica spectabilis is a species of grass known by the common names purple oniongrass and showy oniongrass.
Distribution
It is native to western North America from British Columbia to northern California to the Rocky Mountains, where it grows in moist meadows, forests, and other mountainous habitat.
Description
Melica spectabilis is a perennial grass which varies in maximum height from under {{convert|10|cm}} to nearly a meter, growing from rhizomes and stalked, onionlike corms. The inflorescence is a narrow series of spikelets which are green with evenly spaced purple bands.
External links
- [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9100,9109 Jepson Manual Treatment - Melica spectabilis]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110611153844/http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Melica_spectabilis&type=treatment Grass Manual Treatment]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Melica+spectabilis Melica spectabilis - Photo gallery]
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Category:Grasses of the United States
Category:Native grasses of California
Category:Flora of the Western United States
Category:Flora of British Columbia
Category:Flora of the West Coast of the United States
Category:Flora of the Klamath Mountains
Category:Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
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