Leptochloa fusca

Sprangletop

Family: Poaceae · Type: annual · Native

Sprangletop is a California native annual grass found in low-elevation wetland and grassland habitats. Flowering from June to September, this grass produces small spikelets with delicate branching panicles up to 70 centimeters long. Growing with decumbent to erect stems that have hollow internodes, it can reach heights of 10 to 55 centimeters. Its leaf blades are narrow, 1 to 7 millimeters wide, tapering to a fine point and often extending beyond the panicle. The spikelets feature lemmas with soft-hairy margins and acute tips, with some potentially displaying a small mucro or awn.

California counties: San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Shasta

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.