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|accepted_name=Sporobolus flexuosus
|accepted_authority=(Thurb. ex Vasey) Rydb.
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|common_names=Mesa dropseed
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Sporobolus;Sporobolus flexuosus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sporobolus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sporobolus flexuosus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 131
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial (rarely appearing annual); cespitose, not rhizomatous, bases not hard and knotty. <b>Culms</b> 30-100(120) cm tall, 1-3 mm thick near the base, erect to decumbent. <b>Sheaths</b> rounded below, smooth or scabridulous, margins some¬times ciliate distally, apices with tufts of hairs, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.5-1 mm; blades (2)5-24 cm long, 2-4(6) mm wide, ascending or strongly divergent, flat to involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, margins scabridulous. <b>Panicles</b> 10-30 cm long, 4-12 cm wide, longer than wide, open, subovate to oblong; rachises drooping or nodding; lower nodes with 1-2 branches; primary branches 1-8(12) cm, flexible, diverging at least 70° from the rachis, often strongly reflexed to 130°, tangled with each other and with branches from adjacent panicles; lower branches no longer than those in the middle, usually included in the uppermost sheath; secondary branches widely spreading, without spikelets on the lower 1/8 – 1/2; pulvini pubescent; pedicels 0.3-3 mm, spreading, scabridulous. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.8-2.5 mm, plumbeous. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, ovate, membranous; lower glumes 0.9-1.5 mm; upper glumes 1.4-2.5 mm, subequal to the florets; lemmas 1.4-2.5 mm, lanceolate to ovate, membranous, glabrous, acute; paleas 1.4-2.4 mm, ovate, membranous; anthers 0.4-0.7 mm, yellow. <b>Fruits</b> 0.6-1 mm, ellipsoid, light brownish to reddish-orange. <b>2n</b> = 36, 38.</span><!--

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|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Kans.;Mont.;Ariz.;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Sporobolus flexuosus</i> grows on sandy to gravelly slopes, flats, and roadsides in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is associated with desert scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and yellow pine forests. Its elevational range is 800-2100 m.</p>
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|authority=(Thurb. ex Vasey) Rydb.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Kans.;Mont.;Ariz.;Nev.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Sporobolus
|species=Sporobolus flexuosus
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