...Moist
...Variable
...Dry
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Erianthus from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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 (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Saccharum alopecuroidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-85-001:
Erianthus alopecuroides
FAMILY
Poaceae
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