[Wikipedia] Range, Genus Transfer: It is native to California in the United States, where it occurs as far north as Humboldt County,[4] and its range extends into Baja California.This species and several others were recently transferred from genus Stipa into Nassella, mainly on the basis of their "strongly convolute lemmas". Genetic evidence supports the transfer. (link added by Mary Ann Machi)
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