...Moist
...Variable
...Dry
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Erianthus alopecuroides
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Saccharum alopecuroides
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 029-85-001:
Erianthus alopecuroides
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Saccharum alopecuroidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Erianthus divaricatus
COMMON NAME:
Silver Plumegrass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_eral2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_erdi11_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0401d_08
January Greenville County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm120913_799
September Greenville County SC
Leaves mostly on lower stem, 2-3cm wide, to 75cm long, whie midvein above, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow s080914_c
September Greenville County SC
Panicle 20-30cm long, branches ascending or spreading, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow s080914_d
September Greenville County SC
Flowers consist mostly of a few stamens and a pistil with 2 fuzzy stigmas, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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JK Marlow jkm071025_016
October Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Leaf blade pilose on upper surface toward the base, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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JK Marlow jkm071025_022
October Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Nodes usually densely hairy, internodes short-haired or hairless, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm141025_347
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm091107_053
November Edgefield County SC
Sumter National Forest: Edgefield Ranger District
Inflorescence of many racemes in a dense, silvery to tawny, plume, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm091107_056
November Edgefield County SC
Sumter National Forest: Edgefield Ranger District
Awn twisted, bristle hairs from spikelet base longer than spikelet, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow s071101_e2
November Greenville County SC
Roadside
Callus beard exceeds spikelet. Awn spirally twisted, flattened basally, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
fruit of Plumegrass species