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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may enjoy reading Identifying Native Bamboos by Margaret C. Cirtain.
or North American Bamboo: River, Switch & Hill Cane from George Ellison and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Learn more about Arundinaria from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Arundinaria tecta
FAMILY
Poaceae
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arundinaria tecta
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Arundinaria gigantea ssp. tecta
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VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-01-001?:
Arundinaria gigantea
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Arundinaria tecta
COMMON NAME:
Switch Cane, Small Cane
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JK Marlow jkm191222_2361_a_tecta
Clay County AL
Cheaha State Park
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_arte4_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_arte4_002_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm100313_152
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
Foliage blades coriaceous, persistent, per Weakley's Flora.
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Keith Bradley kab_a_tecta_4910
April Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Flowers more frequently than A. gigantea, supposedly every 3-4 years, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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