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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Found in grasslands and open ground, dry plains and rocky slopes.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 2000 - 7000 feet
Similar Species: Setaria macrostachya
Desc:
Perennial bunchgrass with hard knotty crowns, erect and variable in height from 12 to 36 inches. Seedhead is pale green, spikelike and has bristles below the spikelets.
Identification Notes: Tufted perennial to 3 feet tall, hard knotty crowns. Stem nodes often hairy; leaf blades flat or folded. Seedhead dense, spikelike; spikelets 2-flowered, awnless, first floret sterile, second floret fertile, one pale green bristle beneath each spikelet.
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: Jul - Sep
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Spike like seedhead with bristles below the spikelets. Spikelets borne on very short branches with 1 or 2 basal sterile florets and 1 fertile floret. Spikelets are awnless. Bristles subtend spikelets and remain on seedhead after spikelets fall.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or folded
Blade Notes:
Blades are 3 to 10 inches long, thin, and flat or folded. Leaf-blade surface is roughly hairy; blades have a pointed tip.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
Y
Ligules:
Hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Provides moderate to high quality forage for all types of grazing livestock and wildlife. The abundant, tender, basal leaves are highly palatable.
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