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Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in swamps, wet savannas, pine flatwoods, wet disturbed sites, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain purplish/Yellowish
Grain

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p173
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p207
• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p765?
• Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p200
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p140
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p215
• Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p024

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Andropogon glomeratus   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Andropogon glomeratus var. glomeratus   FAMILY Poaceae

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 029-87-007?:
Andropogon virginicus   FAMILY Poaceae

LESS THAN Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Andropogon glomeratus