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Cenchrus myosuroides Perennial, warm, native, fair grazing for wildlife, good grazing for livestock. 3-5' tall with smooth stout stems growing from a decumbent base. The inflorescence is 2 1/2-6" long with each spikelet a 1-flowered bur with the bristle united at the base. The outer bristles are shorter with the inner bristles as long as the spikelet. Grows on a variety of soils from sands to clays. Decreases with heavy grazing. A good grass for seeding old fields and denuded rangelands where only cattle are to be grazed. The spiney spikelets will cling to wool and mohair. Areas 2, 6, 7, 10. |
Buchloe dactyloides Perennial, warm, native, fair grazing for wildlife, good grazing for livestock. 4"-l' tall stems but sod-forming with creeping stolons which take root at the leafy nodes. The nodes are smooth and intermodes 2-2 1/2' long flattened and shorter than in curlymesquite. Foliage turns reddish brown after frost. The male and female plants grow in separate colonies. Female plants bear seed in bur-like clusters among the leaves (top). Male plants have a 2 or 3 spiked flag-like seed head (bottom), Grows on plains and prairies and produces seed throughout the year. Areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. |
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Created: August 15, 1996
Updated: May 23, 1997