''Trichloris crinita'' is a species of

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

known by the common name false Rhodes grass. It is native to the Americas, where it occurs in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and parts of Argentina.''Trichloris crinita''.
Grass Manual Treatment. This perennial grass reaches up to 1 meter tall. It sometimes spreads via

stolon In biology, stolons (from Latin '' stolō'', genitive ''stolōnis'' – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms. They may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton; typically, animal stolons are external s ...

s. The rough-haired leaves are up to 20 centimeters long by 1 centimeter wide. The

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

is a cluster of up to 20 branches arranged in tight whorls. Each branch is up to 15 centimeters long and lined with tiny spikelets. Each spikelet has one bisexual and one or two sterile flowers. This species is a common forage grass on dry plains in Argentina.Greco, S. and J. B. Cavagnaro. (2003)
Effects of drought in biomass production and allocation in three varieties of ''Trichloris crinita'' P. (Poaceae) a forage grass from the arid Monte region of Argentina.
''Plant Ecology'' 164(1) 125-35. In the US it is used for range revegetation.''Trichloris crinita''.
USDA NRCS Plant Fact Sheet.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q7840688 Chloridoideae Grasses of Mexico Grasses of the United States Grasses of Argentina Flora of Arizona Flora of Chihuahua (state) Flora of New Mexico Flora of Sonora Native grasses of Texas