Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Melica spectabilis Scribn.


POACEAE Family selection - Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Melica spectabilis Scribn. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 37: 45. 1885
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Purple oniongrass
en English name: purple oniongrass

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Bromelica spectabilis (Scribn.) W.A. Weber
= Melica bulbosa Geyer ex Porter & J.M. Coult. var. spectabilis (Scribn.) B. Boivin



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Melica
Species:


Page counter: 243 ( AVG: 223.1 / 292.279 )



Gallery:

Melica spectabilis
Melica spectabilis
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CO, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC)

Distributional map for Melica spectabilis Scribn.
Map for Melica spectabilis Scribn.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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