Description: Spikelets are 1-flowered with purplish glumes. Lemma is 6-9 mm long, purple or brown with darker margins and grooved down one side; with a 3-branched awn that has lateral branches more than 2 mm shorter than the median branch. Date: 16 February 2013, 00:31. Source: Aristida calycinaTurnersFlat spikelet4. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Purple threeawn (Aristida purpurea var. longiseta), Grass family (Poaceae). Johnson Lakes Canyon, Kane County, Utah. This is the most distributed variety in the western states. The awns are 35-140 mm long. Date: 27 May 2016, 15:52. Source: 2016.05.27_15.52.20_DSC04392. Author: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA.
Description: Spikelets are 1-flowered with purplish glumes. Lemma is 6-9 mm long, purple or brown with darker margins and grooved down one side; with a 3-branched awn that has lateral branches more than 2 mm shorter than the median branch. Date: 16 February 2013, 00:27. Source: Aristida calycinaTurnersFlat spikelet3. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Description: This grass may be superfically confused with a needlegrass (Stipa) but the three awns coming from a single lemma tip is unique to the genus Aristida. Date: 28 June 2009, 09:09. Source: Aristida purpurea Uploaded by Jacopo Werther. Author: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA. Camera location43° 35′ 44.69″ N, 116° 09′ 09.09″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 43.595747; -116.152526.
Description: Lemma is 6-9 mm long, purple or brown with darker margins and grooved down one side; with a 3-branched awn that has lateral branches more than 2 mm shorter than the median branch. Date: 16 February 2013, 00:35. Source: Aristida calycinaTurnersFlat floret1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Purple threeawn (Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi), Grass family (Poaceae). Johnson Lakes Canyon, Kane County, Utah. The glumes are with dark purple tint. Date: 30 May 2016, 11:17. Source: 2016.05.30_11.17.56_IMG_3382. Author: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA.
Description: Spikelets are 1-flowered with purplish glumes. Lemma is 6-9 mm long, purple or brown with darker margins and grooved down one side; with a 3-branched awn that has lateral branches more than 2 mm shorter than the median branch. Date: 16 February 2013, 00:22. Source: Aristida calycinaTurnersFlat spikelet1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Description: The spicate panicle comprises spikelet with a single floret bearing a tripartite awn diagnostic of the genus Aristida. Date: 19 September 2005, 18:13. Source: Aristida purpurea Uploaded by Jacopo Werther. Author: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA. Camera location47° 45′ 28.8″ N, 107° 39′ 55.03″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 47.758000; -107.665287.
Description: Flowerheads are loosely-contracted panicles to 15 cm long. Date: 16 February 2013, 21:21. Source: Aristida calycinaTurnersFlat flowerhead1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Purple threeawn (Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi), Grass family (Poaceae). Johnson Lakes Canyon, Kane County, Utah. The glume tip is bifid with a short awn. Date: 30 May 2016, 11:18. Source: 2016.05.30_11.18.19_IMG_3383. Author: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA.
Description: Spikelets are 1-flowered with purplish glumes. Lemma is 6-9 mm long, purple or brown with darker margins and grooved down one side; with a 3-branched awn that has lateral branches more than 2 mm shorter than the median branch. Date: 16 February 2013, 21:29. Source: Aristida calycinaTurnersFlat spikelet5. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Description: In Montana and vicinity, warm season grasses are most abundant and diverse in disturbance-prone settings. Along roadsides, Aristida purpurea is represented mainly by the straight-leaved form. Date: 3 June 2012, 18:30. Source: Aristida purpurea (with some Bromus tectorum) Uploaded by Tim1357. Author: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA. Camera location44° 57′ 32.9″ N, 108° 17′ 18.69″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 44.959138; -108.288525.
Description: Native, warm-season, perennial, tufted, long-lived grass to 1 m tall. Stems are wiry, often branched and have very little leaf. Found on low fertility soils (roadsides, native pastures and open forests). Often associated with iron bark trees, spotted gum and shallow drier soils. Date: 27 June 2012, 13:03. Source: Aristida ramosa plant5. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Purple threeawn (Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi), Grass family (Poaceae). Johnson Lakes Canyon, Kane County, Utah. Date: 30 May 2016, 12:16. Source: 2016.05.30_12.16.13_IMG_6237. Author: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA.