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Common Name:
Common Little Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Schizachyrium scoparium FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schizachyrium scoparium var. scoparium FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon scoparius 029-87-001 FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: In a wide range of moist to dry habitats. One of the most ubiquitous plants in the modern landscape of our area, occurring throughout in a wide diversity of habitats
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Seaside Little Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Schizachyrium littorale FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schizachyrium littorale FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon scoparius 029-87-001? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Coastal dunes and maritime dry grasslands, often with Uniola paniculata, Panicum amarum, and other dune plants
Common in NC (rare in GA)
Native to Coastal Plain of North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Bluestem, Creeping Little Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Schizachyrium stoloniferum FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schizachyrium scoparium var. stoloniferum FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon scoparius 029-87-001? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Fall-line sandhills in the inner Coastal Plain, further southward into peninsular FL this species occurs in a wide variety of soils, often in pineland seepages (including cutthroat seeps and other seepage slopes), and wet to mesic savannas, as well as upslope into scrubby flatwoods
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Big Bluestem, Turkeyfoot
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Andropogon gerardi FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS National Database: Andropogon gerardii FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon gerardii 029-87-002 FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: In a wide variety of habitats, usually rather dry, such as longleaf pine sandhills, glades, cliffs, and rock outcrops, in the Piedmont in woodlands, former prairie-like sites, woodlands, open forests, and river-scour grasslands, in the Mountains in glades, riverside scour areas, and rarely in grassy balds, ascending to at least 1600 m over mafic rocks (on Old Field Bald, Watauga and Ashe counties, NC)
Common in Mountains & Coastal Plain of GA & NC (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mohr's Bluestem, Tawny Bluestem, Bog Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum mohrii FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon mohrii FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon mohrii 029-87-003 FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Wet pine savannas, sphagnous bogs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Splitbeard Bluestem, Silvery Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum ternarium FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon ternarius var. ternarius FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon ternarius 029-87-005 FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry to moist soils of woodlands and openings
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Elliott's Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum gyrans FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Andropogon gyrans var. gyrans FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon elliottii 029-87-006 FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Dry to moist forests, woodlands, longleaf pine sandhills, pine savannas, fields, and disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum perangustatum FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon gyrans var. stenophyllus FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon elliottii 029-87-006? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Wet pinelands, clay-based Carolina bays, other depression wetlands, and boggy wetlands
Uncommon (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Broomsedge, Broomsedge Bluestem, Old-field Broomstraw, "Sedge Grass"
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum virginicum var. virginicum FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Andropogon virginicus var. virginicus FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon virginicus 029-87-007 FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Old fields, roadbanks, disturbed sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Deceptive Bluestem, Deceptive Broomsedge
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum campbellii FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon virginicus var. decipiens FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon virginicus 029-87-007 FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, pine flatwoods, maritime wet grasslands, disturbed pinelands, other wetlands
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chalky Bluestem, Purple Bluestem, Coastal Bluestem, Big Chalky Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum cretaceum FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) PLANTS National Database: Andropogon glaucopsis FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon virginicus 029-87-007? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Wet pine savannas, pine flatwoods, maritime forests, ditches, wet disturbed sites. Often becoming abundant in mesic or wet-mesic flatwood sites that are roller chopped or otherwise mechanically disturbed
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Bushy Bluestem, Bushy Beardgrass, Bog Broomsedge, Clustered Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum glomeratum FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon glomeratus var. glomeratus FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon virginicus 029-87-007? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Swamps, wet pine savannas, pine flatwoods, bogs, fens, depression ponds, wet disturbed sites
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Carolina Mountains, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Savanna Bushy Bluestem, Hairy Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum hirsutius FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon glomeratus var. hirsutior FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon virginicus 029-87-007? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Wet pine savannas, pine flatwoods, adjacent ditches, other wet disturbed sites
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Maritime Bushy Bluestem, Bushy Beardgrass, Maritime Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum tenuispatheum FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon glomeratus var. pumilus FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon virginicus 029-87-007? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Maritime wet grasslands, brackish marsh edges, calcareous wet grasslands, interdune swales and ponds, seepages in limestone areas, prairies, moist disturbed sites
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in GA Mountains)
Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dryland White Bluestem, Chalky Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum capillipes FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Andropogon capillipes FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon virginicus 029-87-007? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Dry to mesic pine flatwoods, sandhills, adjacent roadbanks
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Wetland White Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum dealbatum FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Andropogon capillipes FAMILY: Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Andropogon virginicus 029-87-007? FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Wet pine savannas, ditches adjacent to those savannas, depressional wetlands
Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in NC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum floridanum FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon floridanus FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Florida scrub and scrubby pinelands, longleaf pine sandhills
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia & Florida
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Common Name:
Longbeard Bluestem
Weakley's Flora: (2/10/25) Anatherum longiberbe FAMILY: Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Andropogon longiberbis FAMILY: Poaceae
Habitat: Dry sandy soils of sandhills and dunes, calcareous wet pinelands and dry pine rocklands (this may be another new species, under study)
Rare (historically in NC, but not recently seen)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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