Native Plants of the Chaplin Lake Area
Plains reed grass
Calamagrostis montanensis
While plains reed grass is most common in the benchland prairie of southern Alberta, it extends eastward to central Saskatchewan. During flowering and seed-setting stages, plains reed grass resembles June grass, but can be differentiated by a ring of white hairs that surround the seed hull. It also grows as single stems rather than in tufts, and seldom forms stands of more than a few square metres.
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