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Nolina lindheimeriana

devil's shoestring, Lindheimer nolina, Lindheimer's beargrass
Habit Plants acaulescent; caudices short, vertical, subterranean, with many rosettes.
Leaf

blades not wiry, lax, grasslike, flattened, 30–100 cm × (3.5–)4–12 mm, not glaucous;

margins serrulate, with close-set, cartilaginous, corneous teeth;

inflorescence leaf blades 25–60 cm.
Scape

3–7 dm.
Inflorescences

paniculate, 3–10 × 1–3.5 dm;

bracts caducous, 1–15 cm;

bractlets to 2 mm, margins hyaline.
Flowers

tepals yellow-green, 1.8–2.5 mm, margins hyaline;

fertile stamens: filaments 1.2–1.5 mm, anthers 0.7–1 mm;

pedicel pendulous or recurved, proximal to joint 1–2 mm, distal to joint 2–5(–6) mm.
Capsules

winged, slightly inflated, 6–10 × (6–)7–11 mm, notched basally and apically.
Seeds

loosely invested in capsules, rounded, 3.1–4.2 × 2.4–3.3 mm.

Nolina lindheimeriana
Phenology Flowering spring.
Habitat Limestone hills of open woodlands and scrubland
Elevation 400–600 m (1300–2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
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Discussion

Nolina lindheimeriana is quite infrequent and becoming more so as its habitat is destroyed through development or overgrazing.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 417.
Parent taxa Agavaceae > Nolina
Sibling taxa
N. arenicola, N. atopocarpa, N. bigelovii, N. brittoniana, N. cismontana, N. erumpens, N. georgiana, N. greenei, N. interrata, N. micrantha, N. microcarpa, N. parryi, N. texana
Synonyms Dasylirion lindheimerianum, Beaucarnea lindheimeriana
Name authority (Scheele) S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 247. (1879)
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