Piptatherum pungens

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

{{Speciesbox

|image = Piptatheropsis pungens (as Oryzopsis pungens) BB-1913.png

|image_caption = 1913 illustration.

|genus = Piptatherum

|species = pungens

|authority = (Torr. ex Spreng.) Dorn

|synonyms = Oryzopsis pungens

}}

Piptatherum pungens, also called Oryzopsis pungens, commonly called slender mountain-ricegrass, ricegrass, northern ricegrass, or slender mountain-rice, is a plant found in North America.{{PLANTS |symbol=PIPU9|taxon=Piptatheropsis pungens|access-date=7 April 2021 }} It is listed as endangered in Connecticut,[https://web.archive.org/web/20151023162806/http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/wildlife/pdf_files/nongame/ETS15.pdf "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015"]. State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 17 January 2018. (Note: This list is newer than the one used by plants.usda.gov and is more up-to-date.) Iowa, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It is listed as extirpated in Indiana, as a special concern in Rhode Island, and as threatened in Vermont.