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 Plant - fall Mahan ParkJohn Kava |  Plant - summer Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Blade Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Seedheads - summer Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Spikelets Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |  Seedhead Mingus Mtn - Gaddes Cyn RdSue Smith |
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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Mostly in ponderosa pine or spruce forests and grassy meadows. May occasionally occur at elevations below 6000.
Plant Communities:Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 6000 - 10000 feet
Desc:
Densely tufted grass with long stem ending in a slightly spreading delicate seedhead with small awnless seeds.
Identification Notes: Leaf blades 1/16 inch wide, 6 inches long, rolled inward, crowed at the base, rough on the margins; open, grayish, narrow, branched, ascending seedhead; pedicels hair-like, glumes shorter than the abruptly pointed, 3-nerved densely hairy lemma.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jul - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead 1 to 10 inches long, to 4 inches wide; branches ascending; pedicels 1/8 to 1/2 inch, straight or bent alternately in alternate
directions. Lemma with long soft hairs, 3 nerved and abruptly pointed.
Glumes a little shorter than the lemma.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Involute
Blade Notes:
Blades flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, sometimes scabrous, adaxial surfaces shortly pubescent, 2 to 6 inches long, 1/8 inch wide.
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:
Very good. One of the best forage grasses in timbered areas. Although not as palatable as blue grama, it is considerably more
palatable than mountain muhly with which it frequently grows.
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