Description: Spikelets are 1-flowered with the glumes equal to or longer than lemma length. Lemma is brown or purple, with a 3-branched awn. When young, the awns of the floret are closely appressed and can appear to be a single awn. Date: 6 April 2012, 15:15. Source: Aristida benthamii spikelets6. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Camera location30° 53′ 29.13″ S, 153° 03′ 32.71″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.891425; 153.059087.
Description: Native, warm-season, perennial, slender, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Stems thin, wiry and with little leaf. Found on low fertility, sandy soils. Date: 10 May 2010, 11:55. Source: Aristida benthamii plant5. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Camera location30° 53′ 29.13″ S, 153° 03′ 32.71″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.891425; 153.059087.
Description: Flowerheads are narrow contracted or loose and open panicles; to 30 cm long and usually drooping. Spikelets are 1-flowered with the glumes equal to or longer than lemma length. Lemma is brown or purple, with a 3-branched awn. Date: 6 April 2012, 15:15. Source: Aristida benthamii flowerhead4. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Camera location30° 53′ 29.13″ S, 153° 03′ 32.71″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.891425; 153.059087.
Description: Spikelets are 1-flowered with the glumes equal to or longer than lemma length. Lemma is brown or purple, with a 3-branched awn. When young, the awns of the floret are closely appressed and can appear to be a single awn. Date: 6 April 2012, 15:18. Source: Aristida benthamii spikelets7. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Camera location30° 53′ 29.13″ S, 153° 03′ 32.71″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.891425; 153.059087.
Description: Native, warm-season, perennial, slender, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Stems thin, wiry and with little leaf. Found on low fertility, sandy soils. Date: 6 April 2012, 15:13. Source: Aristida benthamii plant9. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Camera location30° 53′ 29.13″ S, 153° 03′ 32.71″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.891425; 153.059087.
Description: Flowerheads are narrow contracted or loose and open panicles; to 30 cm long and usually drooping. Spikelets are 1-flowered with the glumes equal to or longer than lemma length. Lemma is brown or purple, with a 3-branched awn. Date: 6 April 2012, 15:16. Source: Aristida benthamii flowerhead6. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Camera location30° 53′ 29.13″ S, 153° 03′ 32.71″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.891425; 153.059087.
Summary[edit] Description: Aristida purpurea var. perplexa, Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center, northeast of Radium Springs and west-northwest of Summerford Mountain on the east side of the Rio Grande, 32.5309 -106.8839, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, 14 Jan 2017. Date: 14 January 2017, 09:50. Source: Aristida purpurea var. perplexa. Author: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM.
Description: Native, warm-season, perennial, slender, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Stems thin, wiry and with little leaf. Found on low fertility, sandy soils. Date: 17 April 2009, 13:22. Source: Aristida benthamii plant1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Camera location30° 53′ 29.13″ S, 153° 03′ 32.71″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.891425; 153.059087.