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 Seedhead Anthony Mendoza @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) |  Liz Makings @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Cool and Warm
Habitat Description: Found on dry flats and in washes, often in partial shade of trees and shrubs.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 3500 - 7000 feet
Desc:
Robust, somewhat erect perennial with leaves 1/2 to 3/4 inch wide, columnar spike-like panicles 4 to 12 inches long; spikelets are very rounded on the back.
Identification Notes: Densely tufted, exceeds 2 feet; stems somewhat bent, rough below nodes; dense spikelike seedheads; subspherical spikelets usually subtended by one 3/8 to 3/4 inch bristle, bristles rough to the touch on the upper surface, palea shorter than the lemma.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): Y Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: May - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedheads rarely branched distally, rough below the nodes and panicles. Spikelets 1/16 inch, not quite round, 2-flowered, pale green. Lower glumes 1/3 to 1/2 as long as the spikelets, upper glumes about 3/4 as long as the spikelets.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades 6 to 8 inches long, 1/4 to 3/4 inch wide, flat, with rough upper surface.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Not available.
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