Species: Hierochloe hirta ssp. arctica
Common Northern Sweet Grass
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class
Monocotyledoneae
Order
Cyperales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Hierochloe
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Grass Family
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Monocotyledoneae - Cyperales - Poaceae - Hierochloe - .
Ecology and Life History
Reproduction Comments
In Ontario, apparently clonal vegetative spread; seed-set low or absent (Dore and McNeill 1980). With few exceptions, populations are largely infertile, reproducing largely by rhizomes or apomixis or both (Reeder and Norstog 1961, per Welsh et al. 1993).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5T5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2001-05-11
Global Status Last Changed
2001-05-11
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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