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 Plant - summer Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Plant - summer Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Blade Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Seedhead Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Spikelets Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Ligule Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |
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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Grows in open or closed forests on rocky slopes, cliffs, canyons, and rock outcrops of granitic or limestone origin.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 4000 - 8000 feet
Desc:
Loosely tufted, seedhead stems wiry, erect, sometimes bent at nodes and rooting at the lower nodes; seedheads contracted with soft awns.
Identification Notes: Tufted perennial grass without rhizomes; seedheads narrow, branches contracted and flowered from base; awns at least 1/2 inch long; second glume smooth not broken into teeth; lemmas without hairs; old sheath never flat or coiled.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 24 to 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jun - Nov
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: 1/4 inch to 1 inch Three Awns: N Awns Bent: Y
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead 3 to 6 inches long, narrow, contracted, interrupted, the branches ascending, spikelet bearing nearly to their base, 1/8 inch long without awns. Lemmas prominently 3-nerved, awn 1/8 to 1 inch long, mid-nerve extending as a straight or wavy awn.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Involute
Blade Notes:
Blades 2 to 5 inches long, less than 1/16 inch wide, flat to rolled inward, smooth below, rough on top, often with dark brown necrotic spots.
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:
Fair to good.
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