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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Moist sandy soils, associated with rivers, streams and irrigation ditches below 7,500 ft.
Plant Communities:Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 3500 - 7500 feet
Desc:
Tufted, sometimes with stolons. Stems bent near their base.
Identification Notes: Tufted perennial, 4 to 39 inches, stems bent near base; dense pyramidal interrupted seedhead of un-awned spikelets.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: Y
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N 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: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedheads 3/4 to 4 inches, pyramidal, dense but interrupted; spikelets fall entire below the glumes; glumes 1/16 inch, scabrous on back and keel, one-nerved, apices obtuse or truncate, unawned; lemmas thin, faintly nerved, smooth, shiny.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades 3/4 to 5 inches long, 1/16 to 1/4 inch wide, flat, usually hairless.
Sheath Hairy:
N
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Membranous
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Unknown.
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