G41 



BLUEJOINT 



Calamagros'tis canaden'sis 



Stalks (culms) 2 to 5 ft. tall, erect, 

 simple, usually smooth 



Leaves flat, harsh to the touch, up to 

 10 in. long and % in. wide, often droop- 

 ing, pule green; sheaths shorter than 

 spaces between joints on stalk 



Flower head (panicle) loosely 

 branched, rather open especially at 

 base, 4 to 8 in. long, usually nodding, 

 purplish 



Rootstocks extensive, creeping under- 

 ground 



Roots fibrous 



Individual flower groups (spikelets) 

 1 -flowered, small, )g to "( 6 in. long 



Lowest (2) spikelet bracts (glumes) 

 persistent, about equal, taper-pointed, 

 keeled, harsh on keel 



Outer flower bract (lemma) nearly as 

 long as glumes, smooth, narrowed to- 

 ward summit, ragged-tipped, awned 

 just below the middle with a delicate, 

 straight, inconspicuous prickle; base 

 surrounded by a tuft of hairs about as 

 long as lemma 



Inner flower bract (palea) shorter 

 than the lemma, narrow, thin-papery 



Bluejoint, also known in some localities as bluejoint reedgrass, 

 meadow pinegrass, Canadian reedgrass, and marsh pinegrass, is the 

 most common and widespread species of C cdaniagrostis in North 

 America being first found in Canada. It is distributed from 

 Labrador to Alaska and southward to California (in the south 

 central Sierras), New Mexico, western Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, 

 and New Jersey, running southward, in the Allegheny and Appa 



