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2004. Needle Grama Bouteloua aristidoides 



Southern California, common on bottoms and desert mesas. Very drought 

 resisting. When mature it is not eaten because of sharp awns. 



2005. Bouteloua arenosa 

 Prostrate or spreading annual in loose sandy soil. 



2006. Tall Annual Grama Bouteloua barbata 



Southern California in deserts, usually under brush; up to 5,000 feet. A 

 very variable annual. Good forage. 



2007. Side Oats-Grama Bouteloua curtipendula 



Southern California on plains and dry rocky hills, up to 7,000 feet. An 

 important forage plant in arid and semi-arid regions. 



2008. Blue Grama Bouteloua gracilis 



A stout, smooth perennial with strong rhizomes forming a rough sod. Plains 

 and prairies up to 8,000 feet. June to September. The most important 

 grass of Great Plains and southwestern regions. Excellent forage; withstands 

 trampling. 



2009. Hairy Grama Bouteloua hirsuta 



A tufted, rigid, erect fibrous rooted perennial, 8 to 18 inches high, on 

 dry sandy plains and high mesas. July. Excellent forage; especially valuable 

 for winter forage. 



2010. Purple Grama Bouteloua radicosa 



Upper foothills and mountains, southern California. A stout perennial 

 with rhizomes, bunched. September. Excellent forage, but not abundant. 



2011. Rothrock's Grama Bouteloua Rothrockii 



Southern California to Mexico. A tufted, sparingly branched perennial 

 on upper mesas and open slopes, 1,500-5,000 feet. Important as a forage 

 grass in some localities. 



2012. Slough Grass; Rat- Beckmannia erucaeformis 



tlesnake Grass ; 

 Caterpillar Grass 

 Plants light green, 1 to 3 feet high, spikelets nearly circular. Swamps 

 and ditches, San Francisco Bay north to Yreka and east. Truckee. 



2013. Goose-Grass Eleusine indica 



Culms flattened, decumbent at base. A common roadside weed. Los 

 Angeles. 



2014. Red Sprangle-top Leptochloa filiformis 



Southern California, open ground; Imperial Valley. Florets, awnless 

 glumes, long, mucronate. 



2015. Leptochloa fascicularis 



Erect, 1 to 2 feet high. Sheaths smooth. Ditches and moist, especially 

 alkaline places. Fresno County, Kern County. 



2016. Close flowered Leptochloa imbricata 



Sprangle-top 

 Southern California; a stout annual with erect, smooth, whitish-colored 

 stems. Ditch banks. June. San Bernardino Mountains. 



IX. FESTUCEAE 



Spikelets 2 — several flowered. 



2017. Monanthochloe littoralis 



A creeping stoloniferous perennial, of salt marshes and tidal flats. Santa 

 Barbara southward. 



