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Origin: Native Season: Cool and Warm
Habitat Description: Dry plains, rocky slopes, grasslands, and woodlands, below 5500 feet.
Plant Communities:Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3000 - 5500 feet
Desc:
Medium sized erect perennial with leaves that narrow gradually to a slender point.
Identification Notes: Small perennial bunchrgrass. Blades narrow. Lower sheath hairy. Collar hairy. Ligule membranous and hairy. Auricles membranous. Seedhead contracted, spikelets multi-flowered, not crowded. Lemmas purple, often hairy at the base and sometimes notched.
Grass Type: Perennial bunchgrass Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - contracted Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Mar - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: Multi-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedheads narrow, contracted, spikelike, 2 to 8 inches long. Spikelets often have a faint purplish hue. When mature, seeds drop off, leaving a pair of paper-like scales (glumes) that persist through the year.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Involute
Blade Notes:
Blades 3 to 6 inches long with a waxy coating, usually rolled inward or loosely infolded, smooth or rough with stout projections, or sparsely soft and hairy, gradually narrowing to a slender apex.
Sheath Hairy:
Y
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
Y
Ligules:
Membranous and hairy
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
Y
Forage Value:
Slim tridens is palatable and moderately nutritious. It is browsed by all classes of livestock and wildlife.
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