Flora of North America species comparison

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Anthenantia villosa

purple silkyscale
Culms

70-110 cm, erect from scaly rhizomes.
Leaves

mostly shorter than 30 cm, junction of the sheath and blade evident;

blades 5-10 mm wide, at an angle to the sheaths, surfaces glabrous or the adaxial surfaces hirsute, margins hispid, with papillose-based hairs.
Panicles

8-16 cm long, 1-3 cm wide;

branches stiffly to loosely erect.
Spikelets

3-4 mm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide.
Upper glumes

and lower lemmas pubescent, hairs 0.5-1 mm, appressed or spreading, usually colorless or white;

anthers 1-1.8 mm.
Caryopses

1.2-1.4 mm.
2n

= 20.

Anthenantia villosa
Distribution
from USDA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Anthenantia villosa grows in dry, usually sandy soil on the southeastern coastal plain from eastern Texas to North Carolina. It usually grows in wetter habitats in southeastern Texas than in other portions of its range.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 25, p. 384.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Anthenantia
Sibling taxa
A. rufa
Name authority (Michx.) P. Beauv
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