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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Open valleys and mesas and disturbed areas.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 3500 - 7000 feet
Desc:
Low tufted bunchgrass that branches at the base. Seedhead is 1/2 or more of the total plant height, curved, rigid, with several very slender, widely divergent branches.
Identification Notes: Tufted perennial, stiff, slender stems. Leaves are mostly basal, flat, wavy or spirally twisted. One-flowered spikelets are directly attached in two rows to the seedhead stem. Seedhead matures to a loose spiral which breaks off and rolls with the wind.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): Y
Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jun - Sep
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: Seedhead rigid, several slender, divergent branches. Spikelets alternate on opposite sides of the branches. The whole seedhead forms a loose spiral, breaking off and rolling in the wind.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or involute
Blade Notes:
Blades 3/4 to 2 inches long, thin and twisted in a spiral upon drying.
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:
Poor to worthless for livestock and wildlife.
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