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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Associated with woodlands and grasslands. It also grows in fields, margins of woods, along roadsides, and in other disturbed sites, usually in sandy to clay loam soils.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 2000 - 6000 feet
Desc:
Tall bunchgrass with fine spreading seedhead with purple tinge.
Identification Notes: Tufted perennial erect or wide-spreading; short, knotty rhizomes; sheaths hairy along the margins and at collar; blades wide, flat or with margins rolling inward. Seedhead more than half the length of the plant; diffuse and purplish, lower axils hairy.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: Y 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: Seedheads 10 to 18 inches long, 6 to 14 inches wide, open, basal portions sometimes included in the uppermost leaf sheaths. Spikelets 1/8 to 1/2 inch long, about 1/16 inch wide, narrow, longer than broad, reddish-purple.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or involute
Blade Notes:
Blades 4 to 13 inches long, 1/8 to 1/2 inch wide, flat to inwardly rolled, both surfaces usually soft-hairy, but maybe without hairs.
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:
Fair to poor.
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