Grass Description
In our area, found mostly in rocky canyons near water sources. Can also be found in springs, wet meadows, along streams and in flood plains.
General Description
Erect bunchgrass growing up to 5 feet tall, with hard, scaly rhizomes. Seedheads are long and narrow, with long silky white hairs giving us its common name.
Erect, coarse perennials, scaly rhizomes. Seedheads narrow with silky hairs, distinctly exerted; spikelets in pairs, awnless, surrounded by sikly hairs, subsessile and on one side of the stem; glumes stay on the plant when seeds are mature. Stems leafy.
Flower Characteristics
Seedhead is white, contracted, 6 to 12 inches long, with silky white hairs dotted with brown anthers and stigmas. Spikelets 2-flowered, without awns.
Vegetative Characteristics
Flat blades 6 to 12 inches long, 1/4 to 3/4 inch wide, with upper blades reducing in size. Top surfaces smooth, bottom surfaces rough and sometimes densely hairy at the base.
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