Species Detail Grasses

Plant - summer Pioneer Park		Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants Eragrostis cilianensis - stinkgrass Synonyms: Eragrostis major, Eragrostis megastachya, Poa cilianensis Other Common Names: stinking lovegrass, candy grass, stink grass, strong scented lovegrass Plant Form: Grass Family: Poaceae
Plant - summer Pioneer Park


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	Grass Description - Glossary of Grass Terminology Origin: Introduced Season: Warm Habitat Description: Grows in disturbed sites such as cultivated ground, cracks in pavement and roadsides. Plant Communities:Disturbed Areas Elevation: Below 7500 feet General Description Desc: Plants are highly variable in size; often under 12 inches; few to many seedheads. Stems may be erect or briefly trail along ground before arising; may branch at base and above. Strong smelling when fresh. Ring of glands below the nodes. Identification Notes: Annual; strong smelling when fresh; largest spikelettes less than 1/16 inch wide; keels of lemmas more or less glandular but the glands often obscure. Spikelets many-flowered, 10 to 40. Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N Flowering Period: Jun - Oct Flower Characteristics Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedheads are ovoid or oblong, densely flowered, condensed to open. Lemmas 3-nerved. Vegetative Charcteristics Blade Hairy: Y Blade with White Margins: N Blade Cross section: Flat or involute Blade Notes: Blades 2 to 8 inches long, 1/8 to 1/4 inch wide, flat to involute, top surfaces smooth without hairs, sometimes glandular, occasionally also hairy. Sheath Hairy: N Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar: Y Ligules: Hairy Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area: N Forage Value: Not Available.


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