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Hair Grass (Deschampsia)

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Hair Grass Genus Details

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Hair grass is a superb ornamental valued for its dark green foliage and cloudlike quality of its inflorescences, which form billowing masses of the finest, hairlike texture. This variable species has a wide native distribution in temperate zones, including Europe, Asia, and North America. A cool season grower, it prefers moist habitats, such as shores, meadows, bogs and damp woodlands, often in heavy soils. Hair grass is strictly clump-forming and tufted, with a basal tuft of narrow, dark green leaves, 1-2' tall. Flower panicles are produced in late June or July, emerging in various shades of green to gold, drying to light golden straw color and lasting through the winter unless broken down by snow.

Hair Grass Allergy Info

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Although the grass family in general is considered significant allergenically, this genus is not typically considered to be problematic.

Hair Grass Pollen Description

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Grains are spheroidal to ovoidal, sometimes elliptical. The exine is thin and the surface is granular to finely reticuloid. Pocaceae apertures are 1-porate, with the pores usually circular to ovoidal.
Grains are 22-122 micrometers in diameter.
This plant belongs to the grass family.  All pollen grains in this family are similar to the Poaceae (grass) grain pictured here. Herb. MIN
This plant belongs to the grass family. All pollen grains in this family are similar to the Poaceae (grass) grain pictured here. Herb. MIN
This plant belongs to the grass family.  All pollen grains in this family are similar to the Poaceae (grass) grains pictured here. Herb. MIN
This plant belongs to the grass family. All pollen grains in this family are similar to the Poaceae (grass) grains pictured here. Herb. MIN

Species in This Genus

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Allergenicity Legend:
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Hair Grass (Deschampsia) is a genus of the POACEAE family.
This genus includes the following allergenic species:

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Hair Grass Genus Location

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The shaded areas on the map indicates where the genus has been observed in the United States. Click the map to see a full scale version of these allergy areas.
  - Native, observed in a county
  - Introduced, observed in a county
  - Rarely observed

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