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Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum

blue maidencane
Habit Plants perennial.
Culms

30-100 cm, usually decumbent, sometimes erect.
Leaves

evenly distributed;

sheaths usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely hirsute;

blades to 10(13) cm long, 5-10.5 mm wide, glabrous, margins white.
Subterranean

spikelets 6-9 mm, acuminate.
Aerial

panicles 3-20 cm;

aerial spikelets 5.5-7 mm, narrowly lanceoloidal.
2n

= 18.

Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum
Distribution
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Discussion

Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum grows in damp areas, such as dried pond bottoms, ditches, flatwoods, and swampy pinewoods of the southeastern United States.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 25, p. 387.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Amphicarpum
Sibling taxa
A. amphicarpon
Name authority (Schult.) Hitchc.
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