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Native Grasses <br />10. Inland saltgrass (Distichlls stricta) <br />Grows in the spring and summer; a short grass. <br />Widely distributed in the state except in the high <br />mountains; alkaline soil of marshes, wet meadows grid <br />drainage ways. <br />May be grazed in the spring and eazly summer, but it <br />is rather harsh and not very palatable. Asod-forming <br />grass with short or long scaly rhizomes. Calms 4 to 16 <br />inches tall, those with male flowers taller than those with <br />female flowers. Leaf blades Z to 6 inches long, numerous <br />above and reduced to two-ranked leaf sheaths below. <br />Male flowers and female flowers are in separate <br />inflorescence. A plant has either male or female flowers, <br />but not both. The inflorescences are contracted panicles; <br />pale green female inflorescence is on a shorter calm and <br />does not extend above the leaves; the male inflorescence <br />usually extends above the leaves. <br />Pagel l <br />11. Sand dronseed (Sporobolur cryptandrus) <br />A cool season, mid grass. Widely distributed over the <br />state on sandy open ground of the plains and foothills, <br />especially on overgrazed ranges and abandoned fields. <br />Grazing use varies from range to range and depends <br />upon associated plants and perhaps roil and climatic <br />conditions. The season of use may tie spring, summer, <br />and/or winter. <br />A bunchgrass. The calms are 1 t/2 to 3 1/2 feet tall, <br />erect to sometimes prostrate. Leaf blades up to l2 inches <br />long; a dense tuft of white hairs at the junction of the leaf <br />blade and leaf sheath. The leaves extend at right angles to <br />the calm when mature and dry and give aflag-like <br />appearance. The inflorescence is a contracted panicle, 3 <br />to 10 inches long, lead-colored or piuplish; the base is <br />usually enclosed in the leaf sheath. <br />