[Unidentified Grasses East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

Unidentified Grass #1

Can you help identify this grass? Even helping me get to the genus would be helpful!

An unidentified grass viewed in moist coniferous woods near a seep along the Canyon Mountain Trail #218, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness........August 19, 2011.

Spikelets of

Nodding inflorescence of

Leaf sheath and ligule of - Lower culms and stem leaves of - Ligule and sheath of

Additional close-ups of an unidentified grass viewed in moist coniferous woods near a seep along the Canyon Mountain Trail #218, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness........August 19, 2011. Note the nodding inflorescence with panicle branches held closely erect along the axis of the culm. Note also the spreading hairs on the lower stem and along the leaf sheat as well as the long erose margined ligule.
Paul Slichter E-mail