Tridens flavus |
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purpletop, purpletop tridens |
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Habit | Plants with firm, knotty, shortly rhizomatous bases. | ||||
Culms | 60-180 cm. |
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Sheaths | keeled, mostly glabrous, collars pubescent; ligules to 0.5 mm, membranous, ciliate; blades 3-10 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely hispid, apices attenuate and involute. |
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Panicles | 15-40 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, erect or nodding; branches 10-15(25) cm, strongly divergent to drooping, stiff or lax, lower branches naked for 1/3 – 1/2 of their length; pedicels 3-8 mm. |
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Spikelets | 5-10 mm long, with 4-8 florets. |
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Caryopses | 1.8-2 mm. |
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Lower | glumes 2.5-3 mm, often mucronate; upper glumes 3.5-4 mm; lemmas 3-5 mm, lateral veins puberulent or ciliate to well above midlength, midveins and lateral veins usually excurrent, midveins extending to 0.5 mm, lateral vein extensions shorter; paleas as long as the lemmas, widened below; anthers 1-1.5 mm. |
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2n | = 40. |
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Tridens flavus |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; ON
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 39. | ||||
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Tridens | ||||
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Synonyms | Triodia sesleroidies, Triodia flava, T. flavus forma cupreus, Poa flava | ||||
Name authority | (L.) Hitchc. | ||||
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