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Origin: Introduced Season: Cool and Warm
Habitat Description: Found in lawns, along roads, waste places, farmed lands, and disturbed ground.
Plant Communities:Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 2000 - 8000 feet
Desc:
Introduced, tufted grass with rolled leaf arrangement, stems bent at the base and ascending above, branching, smooth.
Identification Notes: Annual tufted grass 1 to 3 feet, erect stems that branch at the base; spikelike, erect seedhead,rounded at the apex; spikelets less than 1/8 inch long; 3 to 5 bristles subtend spikelets; lower glume hairy on back.
Grass Type: Perennial mat or sod-forming Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): Y Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 24 to 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jun - Aug
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead a terminal arrangement of spikelets, dense, 1 to 8 inches long, spikelike, numerous bristles about 1/3 inch long. Bristles green or purplish, rough. Spikelets nearly stalkless to short-stalked, about 1/16 inch long, lance-shaped to ellipsoid.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades to 10 inches long, about 1/16 inch wide, lance-shaped, flat, smooth or rough, parallel-veined.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
Y
Ligules:
Membranous and hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Not available.
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