Timber Oatgrass

Danthonia intermedia Vasey, Bull. Torrey Club 10: 52. 1883
Danthonia intermedia Cusickii T. A. Williams, Circ. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 30: 7. 1901. (Type from Oregon, Cusick 2427.)
Mcratlirepta intermedia Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 122. 1906. (Based on Danthonia intermedia Vasey.)
Mcrathrepta inlermediaCtisickiiVpeT,Conir.V.S.'iia...'Herh. II: 122. 1906. (Based on Dan/Aonta intermedia Cusickii T. A. Williams.)
Pentameris intermedia Nelson & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 56: 470. 1913. (Based on Danthonia intermedia Vasey.)
Danthonia Cusickii Hitchc. Am. Jour. Bot. 2: 305. 1915. (Based on D. intermedia Cusickii T. A. Williams.)
Culms densely tufted, 10-50 cm. tall; sheaths glabrous (the lower rarely pilose), with long hairs in the throat; blades subinvolute, or those of the culm flat, glabrous or sparsely pilose; panicle purpUsh, narrow, few-flowered, 2-5 cm. long, the branches appressed, bearing each a single spikelet; glumes about 15 mm. long; lemmas appressed-pilose on the margin below and on the callus, the back glabrous, 7-8 mm. long, including the short-awned teeth; terminal segment of the dorsal awn 5-S mm. long; palea narrowed above, notched, nearly as long as the lemma.
Type localtty: Mount Albert. Canada (O. D. .Allen).
Distribution: Meadows and bogs, northern and alpine regions, from Newfoundland and Quebec to Alaska, and southward to northern Michigan, New Mexico, and California.