Grass Description
Open canyon bottoms, rocky or sandy slopes, sandy drainages, and rocky road cuts; grama grasslands, oak-juniper woodlands, and chaparral associations.
General Description
Seedhead stem 4 to 36 inches, erect with sharp bends or prostate on the ground with the tip ascending.
Annual with erect or decumbent stems, much branched below, internodes rough or with stiff hairs below the nodes. Seedhead branches closely appressed, usually < 1/2 inch wide and partially enclosed in the sheath at maturity; glumes generally 1/16 inch.
Flower Characteristics
Seedhead primary branches ascending, closely appressed, usually partially included in the sheaths, separate at maturity, usually above the glumes. Spikelets have 1 floret. Lower glumes sometimes rudimentary or absent, occasionally deeply two-lobed.
Vegetative Characteristics
Blades toothed, rough on bottom, hairy on top.
Not available.