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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Found on open, well-drained areas, slopes, sandy meadows, washes, rock outcrops and gravelly road cuts.
Plant Communities:Montane Conifer Forest, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 7000 - 10000 feet
Desc:
Annual with simple stems 2 to 10 inches long, erect, branching.
Identification Notes: Annual; glumes unequal, 1-nerved and without hairs; seedheads open; spikelets stems stout and short, 1 to 3 mm long; lemmas mottled with greenish-black and greenish-white or purplish patches.
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 - Sep
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedheads are 3/4 to 3-1/2 inches long; primary branches are about 1 inch long, ascending and spreading 20 to 100 degrees from the axis. Spikelets sparse and not awned.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or involute
Blade Notes:
Blades are up to one inch long, 1/16th inch wide, involute or flat, smooth on the bottom and covered with fine short hairs on the top.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Membranous and hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Fair to good.
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