Species Detail Grasses

Plant - summer Rimrock Verde Valley		Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants Bouteloua simplex - mat grama Synonyms: Chondrosum procumbens, Chondrosum prostratum, Chondrosum simplex Plant Form: Grass Family: Poaceae
Plant - summer Rimrock Verde Valley


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Plant w/ruler Rimrock Verde Valley John Kava	Plant - summer Rim Country N. of Sedona Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)	Seedheads Rimrock Verde Valley John Kava	Seedheads - summer Rim Country N. of Sedona Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)	Seedheads - summer Rim Country N. of Sedona Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)


	Grass Description - Glossary of Grass Terminology Origin: Native Season: Warm Habitat Description: Found on rocky, open slopes in grassy and open woodland shrub vegetation. Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest Elevation: 4000 - 8000 feet General Description Desc: Multiple stemmed annual, stems trailing or erect and unbranched. Seedheads of 1 branch of one-sided spikelets. Identification Notes: Annual with trailing or erect unbranched stems. Sheath smooth, ligule membranous or short-hairy. Leaves short, flat to involute. Seedhead usually a single branch of one-sided spikelets, each spikelet having 1 fertile and 1 to 2 sterile 3-awned floret. Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N Height with Seedheads: Less than 12 inches Seedhead Structure: Branched - comblike branches Seedhead Droops: N Flowering Period: Aug - Sep Flower Characteristics Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: Y Awns: Less than 1/4 inch Three Awns: Y Awns Bent: N Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead usually has one curved branch of 20 to 30 spikelets. Spikelets are one-sided with 1 bisexual floret and 1 to 2 sterile florets. Fertile lemmas are hairy at bases and 3-awned with stout flattened awns. Vegetative Charcteristics Blade Hairy: Y Blade with White Margins: N Blade Cross section: Flat or involute Blade Notes: Leaves are 3/4 to 3-1/4 inches long and <1/16 inch wide, flat to rolled inward. Top surfaces are mostly smooth, often soft hairy at the bases. Sheath Hairy: N 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 when green and growing. Overall forage value to livestock and wildlife is very low because this is a small, short-lived annual grass.


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