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 Plant Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium, Usage Rights: Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) |  Seedhead Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Spikelets Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium, Usage Rights: Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) | | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Found in dry to moist soil in canyons, woodlands, and meadows.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 3000 - 8000 feet
Similar Species: Elymus virginicus, Elymus canadensis
Desc:
Plants densely to loosely tufted, sometimes weakly rhizomatous, often bluish-green, erect or slightly decumbent; nodes 4 to 7 mostly exposed, usually not hairy.
Identification Notes: Perennial plants 1 to 4-1/2 feet, densely to loosely tufted, stems erect or bent at base, sometimes weakly rhizomatous, often blue-green in color; spikes slender; glumes thin; lemmas with awns up to 1-1/4 inches long, often with purple auricles.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: Y Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): Y Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Unbranched Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: May - Jul
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Greater than 1 inch Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Spikes 2 to 8 inches long, to 3/4 inch wide, erect to slightly nodding; 2 spikelets per node; spikelets 1/2 to 1 inch, purplish in higher elevation plants, appressed to slightly divergent with 2 to 4 florets; awns 1/16 to 1-1/4 inches, usually straight.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Involute
Blade Notes:
Blades 1/16 to 1 inch wide, usually lax, sometimes slightly rolled inward, surfaces hairless; rigid straight hairs on the veins. Nodes 4 to 7 mostly exposed, usually with hairs.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
Y
Forage Value:
Not available.
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