Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 2860, Bromus porteri.  
 

 

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Photographed 21 November 2022.

Plants of Colorado
Poaceae

Bromus porteri (J.M. Coult.) Nash.  Nodding Brome.

Salt Creek, Park County, Colorado. Small valley just north of Salt Creek, near recently closed Forest Road 435A, 6.87 km. northwest of Antero Junction, 22.2 km. northeast of Buena Vista. 38.9603°N, 106.0041°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 2824 m. Inflorescence nodding, very soft hairy. Growing in and next to a small wash. Also here: Artemisia frigida.

Collected by permit: Pike - San Isabel National Forest, 2022, issued: Mar 29, 2022, to: Tom Schweich.

Tom Schweich 2860. 18-Jul-2022

Coll. No. 2860, 18 July 2022, characters observed: Perennial grass, 45 cm., caespitose; Leaves, sheath, 130 mm., open about ½-way; collar minutely hairy, ligule, 2 mm., blade, 130 mm. × 4 mm. wide, flat, scabrous; Inflorescence, nodding, 1 per culm, panicle; Rachis, ascending hairy, not quite appressed; Spikelets, many, 23 mm. × 2.8 mm. wide, similar, pedicels, 44 mm.; Compression, unremarkable; Glumes, soft spreading hairy, lower, 7.5 mm., veins, 3, upper 8.5 mm., < lowest floret, veins, 3, converging, awns, 0, but mid-vein goes strongly right to the tip; Florets, 8 per spikelet; Callus, few short hairs; Lemma, 10.5 mm., > glumes, rolled, hairy. veins, 5, convergent, awns, 1, 1 mm., subterminal, straight; Palea, 9.5 mm., < lemma, membranous, ciliate, tip rounded; Stamens, 3; Anthers, 2.2 mm.

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