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 Spikelets Sue Carnahan @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) |  Seedhead Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Found on rocky slopes, washes, and in open woodlands.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 2000 - 6500 feet
Desc:
Distinguished by being an annual with densely hairy sheaths; loose, interrupted seedheads which taper toward the apex; 1 to 2 bristles below each spikelet; finely wrinkled lemmas.
Identification Notes: Annual, 6 to 20 inches tall; seedheads loosely spike-like, interrupted, often purple, tapering at apex; bristles subtend spikelets; stems often bent, spreading, branching at the base; sheaths densely hairy; internodes smooth nodes microscopically hairy.
Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: Y Stolons: Y
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Aug - Dec
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Panicles 1 to 6 inches long,loosely flowered and tapering to a point; spikelets 1/16 inch long; lower glumes about one third as long as the spikelets, distinctly 3-veined.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades lance-shaped, widest below mid-point of the blade, tapering to a point, 1/16 to 1/2 inch wide; leaf blades mostly flat, more or less hairy, scabrous, roughened or wrinkled.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Not available.
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