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Eragrostis oxylepis var. oxylepis Perennial, warm, native, poor grazing for wildlife and livestock. 1-2 1/2' tall stems, tufted, branching and spindly. The blades are 8-12" long. The panicle is green to purplish, about 8-18" long, which becomes straw yellow when mature. The spikelets are flat and crowded in clusters with lemmas 3-3 1/2 mm long. Grows on upland sandy soil and invades all overgrazed sites. Areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. |
Eragrostis intermedia Perennial, warm, native, poor grazing for wildlife, good grazing for livestock. 15"-3' tall, growing front a tufted base, an erect bunchgrass. The sheaths are conspicuously hairy at the throat, across the collar. The panicle is large, open, erect and pyramid-shaped with grayish or brownish-green with 3-8 flowered spikelets, each borne on individual branchlets. A ring of hairs is on the axils of the branches along the panicle axis. Grows best on rich soils on rocky, gravelly or sandy land. Decreases with overgrazing. Areas 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10. |
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Created: August 15, 1996
Updated: May 23, 1997