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Origin: Introduced Season: Cool
Habitat Description: Open dry often disturbed ground, waste places, fields, and rocky slopes
Plant Communities:Desert Scrub, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 2000 - 4000 feet
Desc:
Annual, tufted bunchgrass, usually 8 to 20 inches tall but often less when growing on arid, shallow-soil sites. The several to numerous stems spread from the base of the plant.
Identification Notes: Annual grass with erect to ascending, often soft hairy stems below the seedhead, 4 to 16 inches tall, reddish-purple; seedhead dense, contracted; spikelets long-awned, awns straight; lemmas narrow and pointed.
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 - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Mar - Jun
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: Seedheads 3/4 to 3 inches long, 3/4 to 2 inches wide, dense, borne erect on the ends of unbranched stems, with a kind of bottle-brush appearance. As seedheads mature they become reddish-brown to purplish. Spikelets 4 to 11 flowered.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades to 6 inches long, 1/32 to 1/4 inch wide, flat, clothed with soft hairs or down on both surfaces.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Membranous
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Poor, extremely short period of palatability.
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