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Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants

Secale cereale - cereal rye

Synonyms: Secale montanum, Secale strictum
Plant Form: Grass

Family: Poaceae


   
 
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Seedhead
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  Grass Description -   Glossary of Grass Terminology


Origin: Introduced    Season: Cool
Habitat Description: Cultivated, but often escapes to roadsides and waste spaces.
Plant Communities:Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 4000 - 7000 feet


General Description

Desc: Plants 20 to 48 inches.
Identification Notes: Erect often over 2 feet tall, annual grass with flat blades and dense terminal seedheads. Seedheads are a spike with long awns; solitary spikelets; narrow rigid glumes with slender points.
Grass Type: Annual  Rhizomes: N  Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N  Bushy (highly branched): Y
Height with Seedheads: Greater than 36 inches
Seedhead Structure: Unbranched  Seedhead Droops: Y
Flowering Period: May - Aug
Flower Characteristics

Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered  Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Greater than 1 inch   Three Awns: Y  Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedhead is terminal and slightly flattened. Spikelets are mostly 2-flowered. Lemmas have a fringe of hairs on the margin of the keel and terminate in an awn. Seedhead nods when mature.
Vegetative Charcteristics

Blade Hairy: N    Blade with White Margins: N    Blade Cross section: Flat or involute
Blade Notes: Leaves flat to involute and usually smooth or possibly rough on the top side.
Sheath Hairy: N    Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar: Y    Ligules: Membranous
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area: N

Forage Value: Low to minor usage as forage, but many times used as cover.


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