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 Plant - fall Walker Basin - Shipping Lane 4John Kava |  Plant - summer Willow LakeSue Smith |  Basal leaves Willow LakeSue Smith |  Seedhead Walker Basin - Shipping Lane 4John Kava |  Seedhead - fall Willow LakeSue Smith |  Ligule Walker Basin - Shipping Lane 4John Kava |
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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Dry slopes, plains and woodlands, rocky slopes and open mesas.
Plant Communities:Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 2000 - 10000 feet
Desc:
Erect small bunchgrass, stems often branched at nodes, blades usually folded.
Identification Notes: Densely tufted perennial, leaves mostly basal. Blades flat or folded with prominent white mid-ribs, sharp tipped. Ligule membranous and pointed. Seedhead spike-like, cylindrical and bristly. Spikelets paired and fall together, each has one awned floret.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches
Seedhead Structure: Unbranched Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jul - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Less than 1/4 inch Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Dense cylindrical spike, 1/4 inch in diameter, 2 to 3 inches long. First glume has 2 to 3 awns. Floret is awned and hairy.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
Y
Blade Cross section:
Flat or folded
Blade Notes:
Blades 2 to 4 inches long, < 1/16 inch wide, without hairs, smooth or slightly rough below, slightly rough or with rather long stiff hairs above, with prominent whitish midribs and scabrous margins, midribs extending as hair-like bristle.
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 to very good forage with moderate to high livestock palatability.
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