Dactylis glomerata

A common grass with distinctive inflorescences, the branches of which have dense, unilateral, head-like clusters of spikelets. It usually also has stiff cilia along the edges and mid-nerve of the glumes, but these are occasionally absent.

Plant habit in the La Sal Mts., 6/17/06.

An inflorescence at Atkinson Canyon in the Sacramento Mts., 7/4/05.