Grass Description
Found in dry to moist soil in canyons, woodlands, and meadows.
General Description
Plants densely to loosely tufted, sometimes weakly rhizomatous, often bluish-green, erect or slightly decumbent; nodes 4 to 7 mostly exposed, usually not hairy.
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.
Flower Characteristics
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.
Vegetative Characteristics
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.
Not available.