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Origin: Native   Season: Warm Habitat Description: Moist woods, meadows, and prairies. Plant Communities:Riparian Elevation: 3100 - 3200 feet
Similar Species: Elymus glaucus, Elymus canadensis
Desc:
Tufted; seedhead remains straight at maturity; short, membranous, rigid ligule; no hair on stems or leaves; color variable, green waxy, blue-green or silver. Identification Notes: 1 to 4 feet tall; leaves flat, 2 to 4 inches wide; spikes rigidly erect, 2 to 5 inches; lemmas with conspicuous straight awns, base of glumes round, hardened at base. Awns of E. canadensis are divergent, glumes of E. glaucus not hardened. Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): Y Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches Seedhead Structure: Unbranched Seedhead Droops: N Flowering Period: Jun - Aug
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N Awns: 1/4 inch to 1 inch Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N Flower and Seedhead Notes: The seedhead is densely covered on all sides with ascending sessile spikelets. The seedhead is partially enclosed or barely exerted from the uppermost leaf. Spikelets 1/2 inch, appressed to slightly divergent, commonly 3 to 4 florets.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
6 to 10 rough blades, 2 to 4 inches wide and 12 inches long occur along the entire length of each seedhead stem. Blades are medium green, dark green, or bluish-green, hairless on both their upper and lower sides, and rather floppy.
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:
Not available.
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