Grass Description
Found on rocky slopes, washes, and in open woodlands.
General Description
Distinguished by being an annual with densely hairy sheaths; loose, interrupted seedheads which taper toward the apex; 1 to 2 bristles below each spikelet; finely wrinkled lemmas.
Annual, 6 to 20 inches tall; seedheads loosely spike-like, interrupted, often purple, tapering at apex; bristles subtend spikelets; stems often bent, spreading, branching at the base; sheaths densely hairy; internodes smooth nodes microscopically hairy.
Flower Characteristics
Panicles 1 to 6 inches long,loosely flowered and tapering to a point; spikelets 1/16 inch long; lower glumes about one third as long as the spikelets, distinctly 3-veined.
Vegetative Characteristics
Blades lance-shaped, widest below mid-point of the blade, tapering to a point, 1/16 to 1/2 inch wide; leaf blades mostly flat, more or less hairy, scabrous, roughened or wrinkled.
Not available.