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 Blades Mahan ParkJohn Kava |  Seedhead Mahan ParkJohn Kava | | | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Cool and Warm
Habitat Description: Dry meadows and openings of montane conifer forests, prefers gravelly rocky soil.
Plant Communities:Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 6000 - 10000 feet
Desc:
Bluish-green fine leaved tufted grass up to 1 foot diameter and 1 foot high, seedheads extend up to 3 feet. Green growth is present in spring, summer, and fall. Plant greens up in the spring and flowers late spring to August.
Identification Notes: Densely tufted, clumping bunchgrass. Stems 1 to 3 feet tall, clustered, greenish yellow to blue-green. Leaf blades are mostly basal, string-like, and rough to the touch. Florets with less than 1/16 inch awns or no awns.
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 - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: May - Aug
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Less than 1/4 inch Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Narrow with 1 or 2 spreading branches at the base. Seedhead branches are rough. Spikelets 4 to 6 flowered, awnless or with very short awns. Glumes unequal with hairy margins.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Involute
Blade Notes:
Blades 10 to 20 inches long, less than 1/8 inch wide, thread-like, stiff, bluish and ascending.
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, highly palatable when the seedheads and blades are green, furnishes considerable forage in some areas. It does not maintain itself well, however, under heavy grazing or grazing during the dormant period.
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