Species Detail Grasses

Plant - Anthony Mendoza @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)		Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants Leptochloa panicea - mucronate sprangletop Synonyms: Dinebra panicea, Leptochloa attenuata, Leptochloa filiformis Other Common Names: needle sprangletop Plant Form: Grass Family: Poaceae


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Seedheads Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)	Seedhead Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)


	Grass Description - Glossary of Grass Terminology Origin: Native Season: Warm Habitat Description: Found in moist habitats of wetlands, swamps and open lowland soils; also considered an agricultural weed. Plant Communities:Riparian, Disturbed Areas Elevation: 1000 - 5000 feet General Description Desc: Seedhead stems can be 5 inches to 5 feet tall and are usually erect, compressed and branching with hollow internodes. Identification Notes: Annuals; sheaths sparsely to densely hairy; spikelets less than 1/8 inch long and 3 to 4-flowered; ligules less than 1/4 inch long, blunt, uneven, torn and hairy; seedhead branched, branches with short stemmed spikelets. Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): Y Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N Flowering Period: May - Sep Flower Characteristics Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedheads are 3 to 12 inches long with 3 to 100 ascending to spreading branches, each branch with 2 rows of appressed small multi-flowered spikelets. Glumes linear to narrowly lanceolate, exceeding the florets; lemmas < 1/16 inch. Vegetative Charcteristics Blade Hairy: Y Blade with White Margins: N Blade Cross section: Flat Blade Notes: Blades are 2 to 10 inches long, up to 3/4 inch wide and smooth or sparsely hairy. Sheath Hairy: Y Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar: Y Ligules: Membranous Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area: N Forage Value: Forage is fair to good for livestock and wildlife in early growth stages.


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