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 Spikelets Liz Makings @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Seedhead
Sue Carnahan @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) |  Spikelets
Sue Carnahan @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)
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Origin: Native Season: Cool
Habitat Description: Open woodlands, forests, marshes, moist meadows, stream banks and disturbed areas.
Plant Communities:Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 3000 - 8000 feet
Desc:
Annual or short-lived perennial with tufted or solitary stems 8 to 48 inches tall, sheaths are open and smooth or covered with small hairs.
Identification Notes: Slender perennial with flat blades and narrow seedheads. Seedhead is dense, often spike-like and erect or nearly so. Second spikelet glume is much wider than the lemmas and rounded at the tip. Spikelets are awnless.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Apr - Jun
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Contracted, dense seedheads are 2 to 6 inches long, 3/4 inch wide, erect and spike-like. Spikelets are wedge-shaped and laterally compressed.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or involute
Blade Notes:
Blades are 2 to 5-1/2 inches long, 1/3 inch wide and usually flat or rarely, slightly involute. Surfaces may be rough or hairy.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Membranous and hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
This grass produces good quality forage for all classes of livestock early in the spring. It is less palatable later in the season.
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