Three-awn Speargrass (Aristida ramosa)
© Harry Rose
Flowerheads are spike-like contracted panicles 8-30 cm long. Spikelets are 1-flowered with the glumes equal to or longer than lemma length. Lemma has a 3-branched awn and is 8-12 mm long, pale or purple and longer than both purplish glumes or shorter/subequal to the upper glume. When young, the 3 awns are appressed to each other and often appear to have 1 awn.
Photo taken on 5 Mar 2009
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