Species Detail Grasses

Plant - Utah State University, Intermountain Herbarium @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)		Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants Secale cereale - cereal rye Synonyms: Secale montanum, Secale strictum Plant Form: Grass Family: Poaceae


Home	Plant Communities	Plant List	Search Forbs and Subshrubs	Search Grasses	Search Woody Plants	Additional Resources	About this Website

Click on Any Image for a Larger View
Seedhead Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)


	Grass Description - Glossary of Grass Terminology Origin: Introduced Season: Cool Habitat Description: Cultivated, but often escapes to roadsides and waste spaces. Plant Communities:Disturbed Areas Elevation: 4000 - 7000 feet General Description Desc: Plants 20 to 48 inches. Identification Notes: Erect often over 2 feet tall, annual grass with flat blades and dense terminal seedheads. Seedheads are a spike with long awns; solitary spikelets; narrow rigid glumes with slender points. Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): Y Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches Seedhead Structure: Unbranched Seedhead Droops: Y Flowering Period: May - Aug Flower Characteristics Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N Awns: Greater than 1 inch Three Awns: Y Awns Bent: N Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead is terminal and slightly flattened. Spikelets are mostly 2-flowered. Lemmas have a fringe of hairs on the margin of the keel and terminate in an awn. Seedhead nods when mature. Vegetative Charcteristics Blade Hairy: N Blade with White Margins: N Blade Cross section: Flat or involute Blade Notes: Leaves flat to involute and usually smooth or possibly rough on the top side. Sheath Hairy: N Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar: Y Ligules: Membranous Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area: N Forage Value: Low to minor usage as forage, but many times used as cover.


	Arizona Cooperative Extension Yavapai County 840 Rodeo Dr #C Prescott, AZ 86305 (928) 445-6590	Version 8.0 http://cales.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailGrass.php Last Updated: Dec 13, 2022 Content Questions/Comments: Email Matt Halldorson Legal Disclaimer