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 Plant - summer Rimrock Verde ValleyJohn Kava |  Leaves Rimrock Verde ValleyJohn Kava |  Seed Rimrock Verde ValleyJohn Kava |  Leaves Rimrock Verde ValleyJohn Kava | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Cool
Habitat Description: Dry, sandy or rocky slopes, grassland and pinyon pine associations.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3500 - 7000 feet
Similar Species: Hesperostipa comata
Desc:
Tufted bunchgrass; blades tightly inrolled, very narrow, old leaves often intertwined with new growth; seedheads very erect.
Identification Notes: Tufted perennial, narrow involute blades. Sheaths smooth or slightly hairy. Seeedhead contracted; spikelets 1-flowered, disarticulate above the glumes; awns 2 to 3 inches long, twist at maturity, terminal segment with feathery hairs.
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 - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Apr - Jun
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Greater than 1 inch Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead 1 to 4 inches long, often partly included in the sheath. Glumes about equal, remain on seedhead stem. Lower end of floret hardened (callused), hairy and pointed. Lemma hairy and awned from their tips, terminal segment of awns with feathery hairs.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Involute
Blade Notes:
Blades 4 to 12 inches long, 1/16 to 1/8 inch wide, usually tightly inrolled.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Membranous
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Fair to good when seedheads are absent. Extensively utilized by wildlife in spring. Cures well to provide fall and winter forage for livestock.
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