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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Grows in sandy and gravelly drainages, rocky slopes, flats, road cuts, and open sites. It is usually found in oak-pine forests,
pinyon-juniper woodlands and desert shrublands.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 4000 - 9000 feet
Desc:
Delicate annual with minimum leaf area, up to 14 inches tall. Two-thirds of the plant is seedhead, very open and spreading. Sometimes many plants form a diffuse pink cloud of seedheads.
Identification Notes: Annual awnless grass; spikelets hair-like and elongated; seadheads open but not spreading; spikelet stems straight; glumes have minute spreading hairs.
Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Less than 12 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Aug - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead, open loosely flowered, 4 to 7 inches long and 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 inches wide, half to two-thirds the length of the entire plant. Spikelets to 1/16 inch long. Pedicels mostly straight. Glumes shorter than spikelets (1/2 to 2/3) and lemmas hairy.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or involute
Blade Notes:
Blades 3/4 to 2-1/4 inches long, to 1/16 inch wide, flat or rolled inward, roughened with stout projections below, covered with short soft hairs or down above.
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:
Not available.
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