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'''''Dasyochloa''''' is a [[monotypic genus]] containing the single species '''''Dasyochloa pulchella'''''<ref name=grass>[http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Dasyochloa_pulchella&type=treatment Grass Manual Treatment] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611152115/http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Dasyochloa_pulchella&type=treatment |date=2011-06-11 }}</ref> (formerly ''Erioneuron pulchellum''),<ref>Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam Mackay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 314</ref> known as '''desert fluff-grass''' or '''low woollygrass'''{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}, a densely tufted [[Perennial plant|perennial]] [[Poaceae|grass]] found in the deserts of the southwestern United States.<ref name=MDW>Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam Mackay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 283</ref> |
'''''Dasyochloa''''' is a [[monotypic genus]] containing the single species '''''Dasyochloa pulchella'''''<ref name=grass>[http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Dasyochloa_pulchella&type=treatment Grass Manual Treatment] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611152115/http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Dasyochloa_pulchella&type=treatment |date=2011-06-11 }}</ref> (formerly ''Erioneuron pulchellum''),<ref>Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam Mackay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 314</ref> known as '''desert fluff-grass''' or '''low woollygrass'''{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}, a densely tufted [[Perennial plant|perennial]] [[Poaceae|grass]] found in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.<ref name=MDW>Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam Mackay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 283</ref> |
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==Range and habitat== |
==Range and habitat== |
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Latest revision as of 22:45, 4 April 2024
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
| Tribe: | Cynodonteae |
| Subtribe: | Scleropogoninae |
| Genus: | Dasyochloa Willd. ex Rydb. |
| Species: | D. pulchella
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| Binomial name | |
| Dasyochloa pulchella (Kunth) Willd. ex Rydb.
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Erioneuron pulchellum | |
Dasyochloa is a monotypic genus containing the single species Dasyochloa pulchella[1] (formerly Erioneuron pulchellum),[2] known as desert fluff-grass or low woollygrass[citation needed], a densely tufted perennial grass found in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.[3]
Range and habitat[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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 2–5 inches (5–13 cm) tall.[3]
Inflorescence[edit]
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.[citation needed] It blooms from February to May.[3]