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General: Sand Ricegrass (Eriocoma hymenoides) is a common, upright grass that grows in individual clumps (bunches) in the deserts around Las Vegas. Sand Ricegrass is a stately bunchgrass that grows to about 2 feet and has a wide, open mass of branched flower stalks. The many seeds are relatively large and rice-like, and native peoples and pioneers harvested the seeds for food.
Sand Ricegrass is a fairly common component of vegetation associations in the Lower Sonoran (Creosote-Bursage Flats) and Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub and Pinyon-Juniper Woodland) life zones. |
Very open inflorescence with few, small flowers |
Flowers:
Seeds: Large for a wild grass, about half the size of a grain of white rice.
Habitat: Mostly sandy soils.
Elevation: to about 6,500 feet.
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