Briza minor

Appropriately, a very diminutive plant compared to Briza maxima. An introduced species found in various sites in the U.S., predominately in coastal states but also in New Mexico.

An inflorescence south of Cherokee near Table Mountain, Butte County, California, 8 Apr 2009.

Spikelets south of Cherokee near Table Mountain, western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, 8 Apr 2009.