Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin.
Hair grass, crinkled hairgrass, wavy hairgrass
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7/21/2013 · Gibbet Hill, Groton, Massachusetts · ≈ 12 × 8″ (31 × 21 cm) 
ID is uncertain 
6/15/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 17 × 12″ (44 × 29 cm) 
9/14/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 9 × 14″ (23 × 35 cm) 
7/21/2013 · Gibbet Hill, Groton, Massachusetts · ≈ 15 × 10″ (37 × 25 cm) ID is uncertain 
6/15/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 14 × 9″ (35 × 23 cm) 
| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin) |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Magnoliophyta | Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms |
| Class | Liliopsida | Monocots (plants with a single seed leaf); includes the lily family |
| Subclass | Commelinidae | Dayflowers and spiderworts, and several others |
| Order | Cyperales | Flowering plants including grasses |
| Family | Poaceae | Grasses (but not sedges or rushes) |
| Genus | Deschampsia | After French botanist Louis Auguste Deschamps (1766-1842) |
| Species | flexuosa | From Latin flexuosa, "sinuous," or "full of bends" |
Deschampsia flexuosa description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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