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 Plant - fall Canelo AZ Pima CountyJohn Kava |  Blade Canelo AZ Pima CountyJohn Kava |  Seedhead Pioneer ParkwaySue Smith |  Seedhead Canelo AZ Pima CountyJohn Kava |  Spikelets Pioneer ParkwaySue Smith |  Ligule Pioneer ParkwaySue Smith |
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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Dry open plateaus and rocky slopes.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 2500 - 6000 feet
Desc:
Coarse erect, few-stemmed bunchgrass. Seedheads of 2 to 15 slender and flexible drooping branches that bear spikelets of 4 to 7 florets.
Identification Notes: Large perennial, wiry stems. Sheaths strongly keeled, purplish. Blades flat, folded or loosely revolute. Seedheads flexible, drooping, 2 to 15 branches at 90-degree angles, paired or digitately arrianged branches. Spikelets of 4 to 7 awnless florets.
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: Y
Flowering Period: Jul - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedheads 4 to 8 inches, few to many spreading, ascending or drooping branches 1 to 5 inches long. Branches are triangular in cross-section. Spikelets 4 to 7 florets. Secondary seedheads are often hidden in the lowest leaf sheaths.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or folded
Blade Notes:
Blades dull bluish-green, flat or folded, 3 to 14 inches long and about 1/2 inch wide. Blades may be smooth, downy, or covered with stiffly appressed hairs.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
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 for livestock, fair for wildlife when green.
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