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 Female plant Buckboard RdJohn Kava |  Plant - summer Buckboard RdJohn Kava |  Male plant Buckboard RdJohn Kava |  Stolon Buckboard RdJohn Kava | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Cool and Warm
Habitat Description: Grassy flats, dry valleys and open mesas. Most abundant in overgrazed areas.
Plant Communities:Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: Below 5500 feet
Desc:
A wiry low growing, light green grass of stiff, short blades, which forms dense colonies connected by creeping stems. Slender contracted seedheads having 2 to 4 inch awns.
Identification Notes: Densely tufted perennial, wiry stolons. Leaves mostly basal, flat or folded. Sheath has noticeable veins. Ligule short, hairy. Seedheads numerous, spikelets of 5 to 10 florets, glumes exceed first floret. Lemmas have twisted awns up to 4 inches long.
Grass Type: Perennial mat or sod-forming Rhizomes: N Stolons: Y
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Less than 12 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: May - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Greater than 1 inch Three Awns: Y Awns Bent: Y
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Slender few seeded seedheads of long-awned female spikelets and awnless male spikelets mostly on separate plants. Male spikelets 5 to 10 flowered, female spikelets 3 to 5 flowered. Female lemma end in 3 twisted awns 2 to 4 inches long.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat or folded
Blade Notes:
Blades flat or folded, 3/4 to 3 inches long, thin and crowded at the base, stiff. Leaves are often hairy near the collar.
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:
Little forage value partly due to long wiry awns and partly due to harsh, stiff leaves.
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