Andropogon glomeratus |
Andropogon glomeratus var. hirsutior |
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bushy beardgrass, bushy bluestem |
bushy bluestem |
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Habit | Plants cespitose, upper portion dense, oblong to oblanceolate or obpyramidal. | Plants usually oblong in the upper portion, sometimes cylindrical. | ||||||||||||||||
Culms | 20-250 cm; internodes green, sometimes glaucous; branches mostly erect, straight. |
1-2 m; internodes not glaucous. |
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Sheaths | usually scabrous, sometimes smooth; ligules 0.6-2.2 mm, sometimes ciliate, cilia to 0.9 mm; blades 13-109 cm long, 2.9-9.5 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent, hairs usually spreading, rarely appressed. |
scabrous; ligules ciliate or not, cilia to 0.3 mm; blades green, usually pubescent. |
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Inflorescence units | 10-600 per culm; subtending sheaths (2.0)2.9-4.4(6.5) cm long, (1.5)2.3-3.4(4.4) mm wide; peduncles (1)6-14(60) mm, with 2(4) rames; rames (1)1.7-2.5(3.5) cm, exserted or not at maturity, pubescence sparse basally and increasing in density distally within each internode. |
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Sessile | spikelets 3-5 mm; callus hairs 1-2.5 mm; keels of lower glumes sometimes scabrous below midlength, usually scabrous distally; awns 6-19 mm; anthers 1(3), 0.5-1.5 mm, yellow, red, or purple. |
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Pedicellate | spikelets vestigial or absent, sterile. |
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Subtending | sheaths of inflorescence units (2)2.4-3.1(4) mm wide; peduncles 2-5(8) mm; rames usually 1.7-2.8 cm, not exserted at maturity. |
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Keels | of lower glumes usually smooth below midlength, scabrous distally; anthers often retained within the spikelets. |
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2n | = 20. |
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Andropogon glomeratus |
Andropogon glomeratus var. hirsutior |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; KY; LA; MA; MD; MS; NC; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; UT; VA; WV; HI; PR; Virgin Islands
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AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MD; MS; NC; NJ; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA |
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Discussion | Andropogon glomeratus hybridizes with both A. longiberbis and A. virginicus. Some of its varieties are morphologically similar to the latter species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Andropogon glomeratus var. hirsutior grows in ditches, swales, bogs, flatwoods, and savannahs of the southeastern coastal plain, often forming very large populations in cleared, low ground. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 661. | FNA vol. 25, p. 664. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Andropogoneae > Andropogon > sect. Leptopogon | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Andropogoneae > Andropogon > sect. Leptopogon > Andropogon glomeratus | ||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | (Hack.) C. Mohr | ||||||||||||||||
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