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|accepted_name=Avenula hookeri
|accepted_authority=(Scribn.) Holub
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|common_names=Spike oatgrass
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Helictotrichon hookeri
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Avenula;Avenula hookeri
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Avenula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Avenula hookeri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 698
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose, not stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> 10-75 cm, erect. <b>Sheaths</b> closed for less than 1/3 their length, smooth to scabridulous; ligules 3-7 mm, acute, usually lacerate; blades usually 4-20 cm long, 1-4.5 mm wide, smooth to scabridulous, margins cartilaginous and whitish. <b>Panicles</b> (4)6-11(13) cm long, usually 0.8-2.5 cm wide, erect or ascending; branches 10-25 mm, usually straight, stiff, usually with 1-2 spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> 12-16 mm, with 3-6 florets; rachilla internodes usually 1.5-2.5 mm, hairs 0.2-1.5 mm. <b>Glumes</b> thin, acute; lower glumes 9-13 mm, 3-veined; upper glumes 9-14 mm, 3-5-veined; calluses bearded, hairs usually shorter than 1 mm; lemmas 10-12 mm, awned, awns 10-17 mm, flattened below the bend; paleas 6-8.75 mm; anthers 2.5-5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Minn.;N.Dak.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Mont.;Vt.;Wyo.;S.Dak.
|discussion=<p><i>Avenula hookeri</i> grows on mesic to dry, open prairie slopes, hillsides, forest openings, and meadows, in montane to subalpine zones, from the Yukon and Northwest Territories to northern New Mexico.</p>
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name=Avenula hookeri
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|authority=(Scribn.) Holub
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Helictotrichon hookeri
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Minn.;N.Dak.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Mont.;Vt.;Wyo.;S.Dak.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Avenula
|species=Avenula hookeri
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