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 Leaves 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 Liz Makings @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Dry slopes, plains and sandy washes and in open woodlands and ponderosa pine forests.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 3500 - 7500 feet
Desc:
Stem nodes swollen or brittle, stems erect to reclining on the ground with tips ascending, 8 to 43 inches tall. Branched seedheads 3-1/2 to 12 inches long, 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide, erect or nodding.
Identification Notes: Spikelets less than 1/4 inch long and like other Panicums sp. round and awnless. Branched seedhead less than half the length of the seedhead stem, the branches not wide-spreading.
Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: Y
Flowering Period: Jun - Sep
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Spikelets are 1/16 to 1/4 inch long, ovoid, reddish-brown with prominent veins, 2-flowered, the first floret reduced to a sterile lemma and the second floret fertile.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades are flat with clasping bases, 1 to 12 inches long, 1/8 to 1-1/4 inches wide.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
Y
Ligules:
Membranous and hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Not available.
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