Английская Википедия:Dasyochloa

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Dasyochloa is a monotypic genus containing the single species Dasyochloa pulchella[1] (formerly Erioneuron pulchellum),[2] known as desert fluff-grass or low woollygrassШаблон:Citation needed, a densely tufted perennial grass found in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.[3]

Range and habitat

It is native to the Southwestern United States, California, and northern to central Mexico, where it grows in dry regions such as deserts.

Growth pattern

It is a perennial bunchgrass forming small tufts just a few centimeters high with clumps of short, sharp-pointed leaves. The tufts are often enveloped in masses of cottony fibers; these are actually hairlike strands of excreted and evaporated mineral salts.[1]

Stems and leaves

The leaves produce soft, cob-webby hairs that dissolve in water, after summer rains.[3] The hairs are typically not present in spring.[3] Numerous hairless, wiry, stems are Шаблон:Convert tall.[3]

Inflorescence

The hairy inflorescence is a spikelet on the end of the stem, surrounded by a bundle of bractlike leaves, and is 1/4" to 1/2" long.[3] The spikelets which are pale in color, sometimes striped with red, purple, or green.Шаблон:Citation needed It blooms from February to May.[3]

References

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External links

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Grass Manual Treatment Шаблон:Webarchive
  2. Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam Mackay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 314
  3. 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam Mackay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 283