title: Deschampsia elongata
text: # Deschampsia elongata
  
  Deschampsia elongata is a species of grass known by the common name slender hairgrass.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  It is native to western North America from Alaska to Wyoming to northern Mexico, and South America in Chile. It grows at all elevations, often in moist areas.
  
  ## Description
  
  It is a perennial grass forming dense clumps sometimes exceeding a meter in height. Most of the leaves are located in a tuft about the base of the stems. The inflorescence is a thin row of V-shaped spikelets arranged parallel to and mostly flat against the stem.
  
  * Individual clump.
  * Flowering stems.
  