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 Leaves Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Seedheads Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Spikelets Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
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Origin: Introduced Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Common weeds of lawns and cultivated soils, occasionally along streams and washes.
Plant Communities:Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 2400 - 6000 feet
Desc:
Annual grass with spreading-decumbent stems, often rooting at lower nodes. Has long sprawling stems and fibrous roots. The many soft stems grow close to the ground in an open space or will push up through other grasses when crowded.
Identification Notes: Annual grass; seedhead stem spreading-decumbent, rooting at lower nodes; blades very hairy to sparsely hairy, broad, flat, thin; spikelets in 2 rows on 1 side of a 3-angled branch digitate; first glume minute.
Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Less than 12 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - fingerlike Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jun - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: Y
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Two florets per spikelet; lower florets sterile; upper florets bisexual. Anthers three, 1/16 inch long; stigmas red. Lower glumes to 1/16 inch long, lacking veins. Upper glumes to 1/16 inch long, three-veined.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades somewhat hairy to very hairy, blades broad, flat, 1/8 to 1/2 inch wide and 3/4 to 5-1/2 inches long.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
Y
Ligules:
Membranous
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Fodder for livestock.
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