Near a rural road in the southern San Bernardino Mountains
Near a rural road in the southern San Bernardino Mountains
Grass resembling millet 2-3 ft high growing in recently wet soil in shady canyon.
Thousands of individuals seen in Fairview Fire burn area. The last two photos are from a different individual, same population.
Voucher taken with permit.
High 50 cm.
Leaf, long 15 cm, wide 4 mm, rolled in.
Ligule 4 mm, with long hairs up to 12 mm.
Infl. 21 cm.
Glumes 18 and 16 mm, incl awn, purple striped, keeled.
1 Floret.
Awn 10 - 13 cm.
Lemma body smooth.
Lemma / palea 4,4 mm / 1,5 mm.
Palea 2-veined.
All photos taken by @buckwheat; uploaded with permission.
About a dozen of these bunch grasses were growing out of a cliff next to Johnson’s Pasture Road in the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park.
Bunchgrasses, with tall slender inflorescences, growing in a mostly open patch of ground, possibly a small burn scar, on a S-facing slope, just N of Thompson Wash, Claremont Hills, San Gabriel Mountains foothills. Coin used for scale is a US quarter dollar (¢25 piece), 24.26 mm, 0.955 inch in diameter.
Bunchgrasses, with tall slender inflorescences, growing in a mostly open patch of ground, possibly a small burn scar, on a S-facing slope, just N of Thompson Wash, Claremont Hills, San Gabriel Mountains foothills. Coin used for scale is a US quarter dollar (¢25 piece), 24.26 mm, 0.955 inch in diameter.
Low on a north-facing cliff in Claremont Hills Wilderness Park
Bunch grass growing on steeply sloped rock face up to one meter in length or less.