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Koeleria macrantha (prairie Junegrass; junegrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Koeleria macrantha is a species of grass known by the common name prairie Junegrass in the United States and crested hair-grass in the UK. It is widespread across much of Eurasia and North America. It occurs in a large number of habitat types, especially prairie.
View Wikipedia Record: Koeleria macrantha

Infraspecies

Koeleria macrantha macrantha
Koeleria macrantha transsilvanica

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  High
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [1]  High
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [1]  5 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  Low
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Summer
Growth Form [1]  Bunch
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Fall
Growth Rate [1]  Rapid
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Propagation [1]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [1]  Moderate
Root Depth [1]  20 inches (51 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Slow
Seed Vigor [1]  Low
Seeds Per [1]  2314995 / lb (5103695 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Structure [4]  Grass
Usage [2]  The leaf blades of the plant have been tied together and used as paintbrushes and brooms; Bunches of the leaf blades, about 30cm long, have been tied with string or yucca fibre, and used as a scourer for cleaning pans etc; The straw has been mixed with adobe to give strength and adhesion when building walls;
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  None
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Height [2]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
Water Use [1]  High
Screening - Summer [1]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous
View Plants For A Future Record : Koeleria macrantha

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Blumeria graminis[9]
Puccinia longissima[9]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5SPECIES ASSESSMENT FOR PYGMY RABBIT (BRACHYLAGUS IDAHOENSIS) IN WYOMING, DOUGLAS A. KEINATH AND MATTHEW MCGEE, United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office Cheyenne, Wyoming (2004)
♦ 6National Geographic Magazine - May 2016 - Yellowstone - The Carnivore Comeback
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10Bighorn Sheep Diet Selection and Forage Quality in Central Idaho, Guy D. Wagner and James M. Peek, Northwest Science, Vol. 80, No.4, 2006, pp. 246-258
♦ 11Perognathus fasciatus, Richard W. Manning and J. Knox Jones, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 303, pp. 1-4 (1988)
♦ 12The present status, ecology and conservation of the Mongolian gazelle, Procapra gutturosa: a review, Jiang Zhaowen, Seiki Takatsuki, Gao Zhongxin and Jin Kun, Mammal Study 23 : 63-78 (1998)
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0