Andropogon glomeratus |
Andropogon gracilis |
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bushy beardgrass, bushy bluestem |
wire bluestem |
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Habit | Plants cespitose, upper portion dense, oblong to oblanceolate or obpyramidal. | Plants densely cespitose. | ||||||||||||||||
Culms | 20-250 cm; internodes green, sometimes glaucous; branches mostly erect, straight. |
20-60 cm, wiry, glabrous. |
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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. |
smooth; ligules to 1.4 mm; blades to 45 cm long, to 4 mm wide, involute and filiform, or folded. |
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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. |
3-50+ per culm; peduncles 2-13.2 cm, with 1 rame; rames 2-4 cm, usually long-exserted at maturity; internodes densely pubescent, hairs to 8 mm. |
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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. |
spikelets 4-6 mm; lower glumes scabrous in the distal 1/2; awns 11-20 mm. |
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Pedicellate | spikelets vestigial or absent, sterile. |
spikelets reduced to an awned or unawned glume, sterile. |
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2n | = 20. |
= 40. |
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Andropogon glomeratus |
Andropogon gracilis |
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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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FL; PR; Virgin Islands |
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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 gracilis grows on oolite in openings and rocky margins of pine woodlands of southern Florida and the West Indies. Although not uncommon, it is frequently overlooked. It has sometimes been placed in Schizachyrium because of its solitary rames. (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. 653. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Andropogoneae > Andropogon > sect. Leptopogon | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Andropogoneae > Andropogon > sect. Leptopogon | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Schizachyrium sericatum, Schizachyrium gracile | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | Spreng. | ||||||||||||||||
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