Species Detail Grasses

Plant - Liz Makings @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)		Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants Trichloris crinita - false Rhodes grass Synonyms: Chloris crinita, Chloris mendocina, Leptochloa crinita, Trichloris mendocina Other Common Names: twoflower chloris, twoflower trichloris Plant Form: Grass Family: Poaceae


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	Grass Description - Glossary of Grass Terminology Origin: Native Season: Warm Habitat Description: Found on dry flats, in canyons and on rocky slopes. Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral Elevation: 3500 - 4000 feet General Description Desc: This is a showy native bunchgrass that is 2 to 3 feet tall with fingers of white, feathery seed heads held above bluish green stems. Identification Notes: Leafy tufted perennial, sometimes stoloniferous; several narrow ascending spikes crowded on a short stem; spikelets subsessile attached on oneside of seedhead, two-flowered, 3 awned, lateral awns shorter, upper flowers reduced; ligule of long hairs. Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: Y Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): Y Bushy (highly branched): N Height with Seedheads: 24 to 36 inches Seedhead Structure: Branched - fingerlike Seedhead Droops: N Flowering Period: May - Sep Flower Characteristics Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N Awns: 1/4 inch to 1 inch Three Awns: Y Awns Bent: N Flower and Seedhead Notes: Erect seedhead is narrow and dense with 6 to 20 branches in closely spaced whorls of long finger-like spikes. Spikelets have a single fertile floret and one or occasionally two sterile florets. Spikelets have 3 awns. Vegetative Charcteristics Blade Hairy: Y Blade with White Margins: N Blade Cross section: Flat Blade Notes: Flat blades are up to 7-3/4 inches long and less than 1/2 inch wide. They are covered with a waxy coating and are coarsely hairy on the upper surface near the ligule. 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: This grass has excellent forage value to livestock and wildlife and provides good nesting cover to ground nesting birds.


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