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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Openings and meadows in pinyon-juniper woodlands and ponderosa pine forests in dry soil.
Plant Communities:Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 5000 - 7500 feet
Similar Species: Blepharoneuron tricholepis
Desc:
Dense, erect, perennial bunchgrass with stems up to 28 inches tall, leaves crowed at the base, short rhizomes. Dark golden color when cured.
Identification Notes: Tufted, erect, perennial, unbranched stems. Short rhizomes. Ligules densely hairy. Seedhead well exerted from sheath, branches appressed or spreading. Spikelets grayish, 1/4 inch long; unequal glumes. Seeds larger than Blepharoneuron tricholepis.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: Y Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jul - Sep
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead 2 to 8 inches long, narrowly pyramidal, open to somewhat contracted, bluish green or brownish gray at maturity. Second glume as long as the spikelet.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or folded
Blade Notes:
Blades mostly basal, 3 to 16 inches long, less than 1/4 inch wide, often thinly covered with long soft hairs.
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:
Very good.
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