Aristida purpurea

Family: Poaceae
Common Name: Purple threeawn
Symbol: ARPU9
Description: Annual or Perennial. Densely tufted without rhizomes. Leaves mostly basal, sheaths shorter or longer than the internodes, glabrous. Collars glabrous or sparsely pilose at the sides with straight hairs. Ligules less than .5mm. Blades tightly involute to flat, usually glabrous, gray-green. Spikelets divergent or appressed, glumes usually unequal, lower glumes shorter than upper, light to dark brown or purplish, glabrous, smooth, unawned or awned. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.