Species Detail Grasses

Plant - summer Oak Creek, S. of Sedona - Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)		Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants Cynodon dactylon - Bermudagrass Synonyms: Capriola dactylon, Cynodon aristiglumis, Cynodon incompletus, Panicum dactylon Plant Form: Grass Family: Poaceae


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Plant - fall Sedona area Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)	Plant - summer Sedona area Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)	Seedhead - summer Sedona area Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)


	Grass Description - Glossary of Grass Terminology Origin: Introduced Season: Warm Habitat Description: Sandy washes and alkaline seeps, often disturbed places. Commonly cultivated lawn grass in the southwest low desert cities; well established along most waterways in Arizona. Plant Communities:Disturbed Areas Elevation: Below 6000 feet General Description Desc: A plant with an extensive system of stout rhizomes; stems mostly creeping and stoloniferous, with short internodes producing wiry erect flowering stalk, often forms beds or mats. Identification Notes: Perennial with stolons and rhizomes, forms extensive mats; seedheads digitate (finger-like); sheaths smooth or with scattered hairs; leaves flat, short, narrow; ligule a conspicuous ring of white hairs. Grass Type: Perennial mat or sod-forming Rhizomes: Y Stolons: Y Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches Seedhead Structure: Branched - fingerlike Seedhead Droops: N Flowering Period: May - Oct Flower Characteristics Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: Y Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead has spikelike branches arranged windmill fashion at the top of the stem. Seedhead stems mostly creeping but produce erect wiry flowering stalks at frequent intervals. Spikelets in 2 rows along one side. Vegetative Charcteristics Blade Hairy: N Blade with White Margins: N Blade Cross section: Flat Blade Notes: Blades short, narrow, 1/2 to 2-1/4 inches long to 1/8 inch wide. Sheath Hairy: N Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar: Y Ligules: Membranous and hairy Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area: N Forage Value: Good if irrigated.


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