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grass or grain?

 
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Maybe grain is a grass....? But anyway, northeast arizona has a buch of different grasses. This is one that i have not seen before. The local rancher left and took his cattle with him so plants that normally get chomped are getting a chance to grow.

I found these growing in an area where a tribe (pottery chards say Anasazi) had built a water catchment tanks.
Maybe something left over from them?
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looks similar to something that grew out of some straw mulch we used.

the one we had looked like grass until it got ~5ft tall, then it sorta looked like a grain.

 
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Looks very much like northern or thick spike wheatgrass (Elymus lanceolatus), a common native grass on the Great Plains.
 
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