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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Mostly in moist places, but grows in a wide variety of habitats, including grasslands, meadows, shrublands, woodlands, marshes,
and stream and lake margins, as well as disturbed sites such as roadsides, ditches, and abandoned pastures.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 5000 - 11000 feet
Desc:
Densely tufted. Awned and unawned plants often occur together, the difference presumably being caused by a single gene.
Identification Notes: One-flowered spikelets; seedhead very diffuse with secondary branching in the top half; spikelets start in the middle of branches; palea are less than 1/3 the length of the lemma.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 24 to 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: May - Nov
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: The 4 to 12 inch seedhead is exerted from the upper sheaths, has long branches, is broadly ovate, often nearly as wide as long, diffuse, often detaching at the base at maturity forming a tumbleweed. Spikelets are about 1/8 inch long. Lemmas 5-nerved.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Leaves mostly basal, basal leaves usually persistent; wrinkled and roughened.
Sheath Hairy:
N
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Membranous
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Good.
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