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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: In our area, found mostly in rocky canyons near water sources. Can also be found in springs, wet meadows, along streams and in flood plains.
Plant Communities:Riparian
Elevation: Below 6000 feet
Desc:
Erect bunchgrass growing up to 5 feet tall, with hard, scaly rhizomes. Seedheads are long and narrow, with long silky white hairs giving us its common name.
Identification Notes: Erect, coarse perennials, scaly rhizomes. Seedheads narrow with silky hairs, distinctly exerted; spikelets in pairs, awnless, surrounded by sikly hairs, subsessile and on one side of the stem; glumes stay on the plant when seeds are mature. Stems leafy.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: Y Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): Y Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: May - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead is white, contracted, 6 to 12 inches long, with silky white hairs dotted with brown anthers and stigmas. Spikelets 2-flowered, without awns.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Flat blades 6 to 12 inches long, 1/4 to 3/4 inch wide, with upper blades reducing in size. Top surfaces smooth, bottom surfaces rough and sometimes densely hairy at the base.
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:
Not available.
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