Species Detail Grasses

Plant - Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)		Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants Festuca arundinacea - tall fescue Synonyms: Shedonorus arundinaceus, Lolium arundinaceum Plant Form: Grass Family: Poaceae


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Herbarium specimen University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium, Usage Rights: Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)	Spikelets Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)	Seedheads Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)


	Grass Description - Glossary of Grass Terminology Origin: Introduced Season: Cool and Warm Habitat Description: Found in disturbed sites and along stream banks. Plant Communities:Riparian, Disturbed Areas Elevation: 3000 - 6500 feet General Description Desc: An introduced, quite variable rhizomatous perennial with stout, erect stems. Dark green leaves are flat, long and narrow with pointed tips. Identification Notes: Perennial grass to 3 feet or more; leaf blade with prominent claw-like or clasping hairy auricles; seedhead erect or nodding, branches dense and contracted to open and spreading; lemmas about 1/2 inch long, rarely short-awned, minutely hairy. Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: Y Stolons: N Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N Flowering Period: May - Oct Flower Characteristics 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: Seedheads spikelike, 4 to 14 inches long, 2 branches per node; spikelets of 3 to 10 flowered, laterally compressed; lemma awns absent or to 1/4 inch. Vegetative Charcteristics Blade Hairy: Y Blade with White Margins: N Blade Cross section: Convolute Blade Notes: Blades convolute in young shoots; 8 to 16 inches long, 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide, at least 1 or 2 hairs along the margins. Sheath Hairy: N Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar: N Ligules: Membranous Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area: Y Forage Value: Unknown.


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