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Origin: Native Season: Cool and Warm
Habitat Description: Rocky slopes, dry hillsides and sandy plains.
Plant Communities:Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3000 - 6000 feet
Desc:
A short leaved sodgrass; up to 1 foot tall with seedheads; stolons root at nodes. Light green, when fresh, golden when dry.
Identification Notes: Stoloniferous; curly mass of short flat blades; seedhead 4 to 12 inches tall, 4 to 8 groups of 3 spikelets, two outer florets 2-flowered and staminate, center spikelet staminate and pistillate. Seedhead has zigzag pattern when spikelets fall.
Grass Type: Perennial mat or sod-forming Rhizomes: N Stolons: Y
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Less than 12 inches
Seedhead Structure: Unbranched Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Mar - Oct
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 rarely over 8 inches tall, consist of groups of papery 3-spikelet clusters that fall at maturity, leaving a zigzag stalk. Mid-nerves of the glumes extend into awns.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Flat, very fine, 3 to 5 inches long to 1/16 inch wide, becoming tightly curled as they cure, above surfaces sparsely soft-hairy, hairs nipple-like based, margins sparsely soft-hairy basally, with similar hairs.
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:
Curly-mesquite is grazed all year by horses, cattle, sheep, goats, antelope, and deer.
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