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 Blades Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Seedheads Anthony Mendoza @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) | | | | |
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Origin: Introduced Season: Cool
Habitat Description: Open desert, dry open slopes, sandy washes and disturbed areas.
Plant Communities:Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 1000 - 5000 feet
Desc:
A small, low growing grass distinguished by its often ground-hugging growth. Sometimes a short-lived perennial.
Identification Notes: Tufted, low growing, erect to spreading or semi-prostrate, 4 to 8 inches tall; blades tightly rolled (filiform),hairless; seedheads contracted and dense; spiklelets of multiple florets; terminal floret infertile; lower florets exceed glumes.
Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): Y Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Less than 12 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jan - May
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Dense compact seedheads rise from the ends of the stems, 1/2 to 2 inches long; spikelets 1/4 inch long, 5 to 7 flowers; glumes 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, acute or tapering.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or folded
Blade Notes:
Blades are 1 to 2 inches long, < 1/16 inch wide; if facing away from the stem, surfaces smooth or rough and covered with scabs; if facing toward the stem, surfaces rough; sparsely covered with fine soft short hairs near ligules.
Sheath Hairy:
N
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Unknown.
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