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DESCRIPTION:
Bearded sprangletop, a summer annual grass, is commonly found in marshes and
wetlands and usually associated with alkaline soils. Although this plant thrives
in wet places, its seedling cannot survive under water. Leaves on seedlings
are light green usually with a white midrib. Seedlings and mature plants have
auricles and long, thin, membranous ligules that tear easily. Mature plants
have rough sheaths and leafblades. Lower sheaths may be straw colored to reddish.
Upright plant can be 12 to 40 inches (30 cm - 100 cm) tall. Flowering heads
are branched and change from dark green when young to straw colored at maturity.
Bearded sprangletop can be distinguished from other sprangletops that grow
in California because it has short awns on the tip of each flower.
Grass ID illustration.
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