Eastern Bottle Brush
Description: Eastern bottle brush or eastern bottlebrush grass is a bunchgrass in the grass family, Poaceae. It is native to the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada. Eastern bottle brush is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves, on erect stems. The flowers are white and bloom in spring. Elymus hystrix ranges from approximately two and a half to four and a half feet in height. There are usually two spikelets at each of the five to nine nodes of the plant. Unlike some similar native grasses, the blades of Elymus hystrix do not have glumes surrounding its spikelets.
Locations in Campus: Lakeside
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