NameThatPlant.net: Elymus glabriflorus +

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Elymus glabriflorus + FAMILY Poaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

This species was resurrected by J.J.N. Campbell in 2000, so botanists are now figuring out how best to tell it from E. virginicus, per the Vascular Plants of North Carolina website.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Elymus glabriflorus FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Elymus glabriflorus

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24 (2007)

Elymus glabriflorus

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Elymus virginicus var. virginicus

INCLUDED WITHIN Steyermark's Flora of Missouri (Yatskievych, 1999)

Elymus virginicus var. glabriflorus

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-25-002?:

Elymus virginicus FAMILY Poaceae

COMMON NAME:
Southeastern Wild-rye

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image of Elymus glabriflorus +, Southeastern Wild-rye

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_elau2_001_lvd

Elymus glabriflorus var. australis

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_elgl3_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Elymus glabriflorus + FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Elymus glabriflorus FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Elymus glabriflorus

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24
Elymus glabriflorus

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Elymus virginicus var. virginicus

INCLUDED WITHIN Steyermark's Flora of Missouri (Yatskievych, 1999)
Elymus virginicus var. glabriflorus

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-25-002?:
Elymus virginicus FAMILY Poaceae

4334

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common or uncommon - depending on variety

map

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], with short rhizomes

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain reddish
Grain

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