Saccharum baldwinii
narrow plumegrass
0.9-1.8 m;
nodes glabrous or with hairs to 0.5 mm.
glabrous;
ligules 1-3 mm, with lateral lobes;
blades 18-60 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, glabrous.
30-40 cm, glabrous;
panicles 1-2.5 cm wide, linear;
lowest nodes glabrous or sparsely pilose;
rachises 10-35 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent;
primary branches 6-18 cm, appressed;
rame internodes 3-5 mm, glabrous.
3-5 mm, glabrous.
spikelets 7-10 mm long, 1.1-1.5 mm wide, brown.
hairs absent or to 2 mm, shorter than the spikelets, straw-colored;
lower glumes scabrous, 5-veined;
lower lemmas 6-8 mm, 2-veined;
upper lemmas 0.9-1 times as long as the lower lemmas, 3-veined, entire;
awns 17-24 mm, terete, straight or curved at the base;
lodicule veins extending into hairlike projections;
anthers 2.
spikelets similar to the sessile spikelets.
= 30.
Saccharum baldwinii
Saccharum baldwinii commonly grows in sandy, shaded river and stream bottoms. It occurs throughout the southeastern United States, but it is not as common as other members of the genus, and is rare or completely absent from higher elevations of the Appalachian Mountains.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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