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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Rocky or sandy slopes and plateaus, often along roadsides and other disturbed areas.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: Below 6000 feet
Desc:
Coarse, tufted grass; seedhead stems erect to sprawling, seedheads airy; roots tough and wiry.
Identification Notes: Blades up to 16 inches long, roll inward toward their end tapering to a fine point; basal portion of awn not spirally twisted; lateral awn branches less than 1/16 inch long or wanting; lemma not articulate (jointed) with the base of the awn.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 24 to 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Aug - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: 1/4 inch to 1 inch Three Awns: Y Awns Bent: Y
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead 1/3 to 1/2 the length of the flower stem, branches few, spread away from the central stem, hairy in axils. Awns not or only slightly twisted. Central awns <1/2 to 1 inch, straight to curving; lateral awns absent or to 1 inch long.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or folded
Blade Notes:
Blades 2 to 6 inches long, <1/8 inch wide, flat to folded, straight to lax at maturity, lower surfaces with scattered, <1/8 inch hairs near the collar.
Sheath Hairy:
N
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Membranous
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Fair to poor. It greens up after the spring rains more rapidly than most grasses and is used most heavily at this time. It is grazed lightly after other, more palatable grasses begin to grow.
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