Danthonia

Commonly known as 'bunchgrass prairie', the fescue grasslands ecoregion is typified by the festuca/danthonia grass association (Festuca scabrella and Danthonia parryi).

Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada 2008

Abundant here are Danthonia collina, Stipa laevissima and Piptochaetium bicolor.

Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests 2007

Along the northern edge of the Rub 'al-Khali sands in the UAE, Calligonum comosum is the characteristic woody perennial, growing in wind blown sand, with a succession of annual herbs that grow after rain, of which Danthonia forskallii is the most common.

Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands 2008

Grasses include large tussocks of Festuca costata and Danthonia davyi interspersed with cushions of Eragrostis volkensii and the extraordinary grass Alloeochaete oreogena, a Mulanje endemic up to 3 m tall with a tree trunk-like structure.

South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

The common grasses of the zone are Danthonia cachemyriana, Calamogrostis emodensis, Agrostis pilosula and Trisetum spicatum; the main sedge species are Kobresia roylei and Carex nubigena.

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

The forests of the montane steppe are more open than those of the low montane steppe and are usually accompanied by "cara de hombre" (Lyonia spp.), "abey" (Pithecellobium arboreum), "yaya fina" (Oxandra lanceolata), "pajón" (Danthonia dominguensis), Verbena domingensis and Wienmannia pinnata.

Hispaniolan pine forests 2008

Other species present include Acacia ligulata, Geijera linearifolia, and E. diversifolia, with Stipa eremophila and Danthonia caespitosa as the main grasses.

Eyre and York mallee 2007

Danthonia pectinata, 319. — — * triticoides LINDL.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Among the usual grasses we found one which I had not previously seen and which proved to be a new species of Danthonia.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

Danthonia spicata creates dense basal rosettes with low vertical growth,

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