Calamagrostis ophitidis

Calamagrostis ophitidis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Calamagrostis
Species: C. ophitidis
Binomial name
Calamagrostis ophitidis
(J.T.Howell) Nygren

Calamagrostis ophitidis, serpentine reedgrass, is a species of bunch grass in the Poaceae family.

It is endemic to California, where it grows in the serpentine soils of the mountain slopes north of the San Francisco Bay Area.

It is a perennial grass forming clumps reaching heights between 60 centimeters and three feet/one meter. The inflorescence is a dense, thinly bushy array of rough, pale-colored spikelets.

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