PRAIRIE DROPSEED
|
 |
| File Size: 82 KB |
|
|
|
Sporobolus heterolepis (A. Gray ) A. Gray
|
| Douglas County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 16-34 inches |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: August, September |
|
| Culms: | | Erect, slender, wiry, glabrous. | | Blades: | | Basal and cauline; blades 8 to 16 inches long, .2 inch wide, filiform to involute to folded, tip tapering, glabrous, scabrous margins and midrib. | | Sheaths: | | Longer than internodes, terete, throat somewhat pilose, summit with conspicuous tufts of hair. | | Ligules: | | Line of minute hairs | | Inflorescences: | | Panicle, open, elliptical to narrowly pyramidal, 4.5 to 8 inches long, up to 2.8 inches wide, branches ascending, 1.2 to 2.4 inches long, spikelets borne toward branch tips on short pedicels. | | Spikelets: | | Grayish, 1-flowered, .16 to .28 inch long, awnless; glumes glabrous, first glume subulate, .07 to .18 inch long, second glume lanceolate, .1 to .24 inch long, acuminate or awn-pointed; lemmas .13 to .16 inch, obtuse or acute, 1-veined, glabrous; paleas as along as or slightly longer than lemmas. | | Habitat: | | Prairies, roadsides, woodland edges; sandy to clay loam soils. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Forage Value: | | Good forage value for livestock prior to maturity. | | Uses: | | The Ojibwa applied a poultice of crushed root to sores. | | Comments: | | Densely tufted. Occasionally planted as an ornamental. |
|
| Prairie dropseed inflorescence |  | | 75 KB | | Douglas County, Kansas |
| | Prairie dropseed inflorescence |  | | 67 KB | | Douglas County, Kansas |
| | Prairie dropseed blade |  | | 81 KB | | Douglas County, Kansas |
| | Prairie dropseed blades |  | | 89 KB | | Douglas County, Kansas |
| | Prairie dropseed habit |  | | 164 KB | | Douglas County, Kansas |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
