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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Found on sandy and rocky slopes and plains and in canyons.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 3500 - 6800 feet
Desc:
Tufted, erect, topped with open, spreading and diffuse seedheads. Broadly pyramidal seedheads have small multi-flowered spikelets at the end of branches.
Identification Notes: Tufted perennial to 3 feet. Ligule a row of dense hairs. Blades flat or involute. Diffuse, broadly pyramid-shaped, reddish seedheads with long, delicate branches and spikelets that are solitary at the end of long branches. Spikelets have 5 to 11 florets.
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: Jun - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead large, grayish-green to purple, open and pyramidal with slender delicate branches. Branches are spreading. Axils of branches are hairy. Compressed spikelets of 5 to 11 florets on short 1/4 to 1/2 inch long secondary branches.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or involute
Blade Notes:
Leaves narrow, 1/16 to 1/8 inch wide and 4 to 10 inches long. Surface is smooth below, rough and hairy on top.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
Y
Ligules:
Hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Good. This is an important early spring forage grass for livestock and wildlife.
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