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 Spikelets Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Seedheads Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Grows in dry, open areas, usually in sandy soil or disturbed sites.
Plant Communities:Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 3400 - 7000 feet
Similar Species: Dasyochloa pulchella
Desc:
Plants annual; stoloniferous, mat-forming.
Identification Notes: Low spreading and much branched annual that forms mats. Leaves are short, flat, pungent and arranged in tight bundles. Distinguished from Dasyochloa pulchella which is a perennial.
Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: Y
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Less than 12 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - fingerlike Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Jun - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead terminal with spikelike branches. Flower cluster is laterally compressed with 3 to 5 florets; lower florets bisexual or pistels without stamens; terminal florets sterile. Glumes, shorter than the flower, are clustered, keeled, 1-veined, unawned.
Blade Hairy:
N
Blade with White Margins:
Y
Blade Cross section:
Flat or involute
Blade Notes:
Blades linear, usually involute, sometimes flat or folded, with white, thickened margins; apex sharply pointed.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
Y
Ligules:
Hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
No forage value.
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