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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Muhlenbergia from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Muhlenbergia capillaris var. trichopodes
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-45-001:
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Muhlenbergia expansa
COMMON NAME:
Savannah Hairgrass, Cut-over Muhly
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_muex_001_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_muhlenbergia_expansa5
August Scotland County NC
Panicle capillary, flexuous, fragile, and tends to break up over the winter, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_muhlenbergia_expansa1
October Scotland County NC
Old leaf bases fibrous and curly (rather than hardened and cartilaginous), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Muhlenbergia capillaris var. trichopodes
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-45-001:
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Muhlenbergia expansa
952
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in pine savannas, pine flatwoods, mesic areas in sandhill-pocosin ecotones, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Lemmas brownish
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain blackish
Grain
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