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 Seedheads Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Cool and Warm
Habitat Description: Grows in dry, open areas and disturbed ground below 6500.
Plant Communities:Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 1000 - 6500 feet
Similar Species: B. carinatus, B. marginatus
Desc:
Annual grass growing over 3 feet tall with open, branching seedheads. The spikelets are flat and hairy and have awns up to 1/2 inch long.
Identification Notes: Spikelets are definitely flattened; the second glume is nearly equal to the lowest floret; lemmas are keeled, hairy on their margins and have awns of 1/4 to 1/2 inch long.
Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): U Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 24 to 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Mar - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: 1/4 inch to 1 inch Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Spikelets 3/4 to 1 inch, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, with 4–8 florets. Seedheads are 1 to 3 feet tall, 1/8 inch thick, often lying along the ground with the extremity curving upward. Flowers mostly March to June.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
Y
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades 3 to 6 inches long, 1/8 to 1/2 inch wide, flat, sparsely with soft hairs on both surfaces, sometimes the lower side is smooth.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
U
Ligules:
Hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
No information found.
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