Grass Description
Moist sandy or gravelly soil of valley flats and on dry slopes, desert scrub to pine forests.
General Description
Delicate annual grass small with most of the plant being a delicate seedhead.
Annual; stems abruptly bent, ascending, freely branched from the base; seedhead often purplish, up to 15 inches; blades flat or folded, up to 3 inches; lemmas awnless; glumes glabrous. Spikelet stems of M. sinuosa, M. minutissima are thread-like.
Flower Characteristics
Seedhead often purple, very open and readily breaking off at maturity, up to 15 inches long or more, diffuse and fragile. Spikelets less than 1/16 inch long, glumes 1/2 length of spikelets, 1 nerved, not hairy. Lemmas silky (hairy) on keel and margin.
Vegetative Characteristics
Blade 3/4 to 2-1/4 inches long, 1/16 inch wide, thickened white margins and white mid-nerve.
Not available.