Botanical name: Calamagrostis stolizkae    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)

Ladakh Reedgrass is a perennial grass with stem short stout, leaves erect convolute, panicle short oblong contracted dense. Stem is 1.5-2 feet, erect. Leaves are 7-15 cm long, 4-6 mm wide, very rough above; sheaths scaberulous; ligule oblong. Flowers are borne in panicles 10 cm long; branches short, erect or nearly so, rough. Spikelets are erect, crowded, pale, shining, 4 mm. Ladakh Reedgrass is found in Western Himalaya to Western Tibet, at altitudes of 4000-5000 m.

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The flower labeled Ladakh Reedgrass is ...