...Moist
...Dry
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Elymus hystrix var. hystrix
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Elymus hystrix var. hystrix
FAMILY
Poaceae
LESS THAN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 029-24-001:
Hystrix patula
FAMILY
Poaceae
COMMON NAME:
Common Bottlebrush Grass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_hypa3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm170527_056
May McCormick County SC
Blades flat, mostly 7-15mm wide, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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JK Marlow jkm170527_058
May McCormick County SC
Lemmas convex, rigid, tapering into slender, straight awns 1-4cm long, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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JK Marlow jkm170527_061
May McCormick County SC
Awned spikelets spread at right angles to rachis; glumes absent or reduced, per How to Know the Grasses by R.W. Pohl.
COMPARE
seedheads of Bottlebrush Grass, Cereal Rye, and Virginia Wild-rye
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Gill Newberry gn06_hpatula_plant
June
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Gill Newberry gn06_h_patula_inflorscenc
June
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JK Marlow jkm0406c_27
June Chester County SC
Landsford Canal State Park
Spikelets usually 2 per node of rachis, usually horizontally divergent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
seedheads of Bottlebrush Grass, Cereal Rye, and Virginia Wild-rye
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JK Marlow jkm0506m_29
June Union County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmehystrix_wadakoe
June Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_hystrix_6_02_07_4
June Floyd County GA
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmehystrix_wm1
Month Unknown Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Rachis internodes 5-10mm, spikelets horizontally spreading toward maturity, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.