Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

2549
Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Poaceae
Aristida beyrichiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Poaceae
Aristida beyrichiana

LESS THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Poaceae
029-38-005?
Aristida stricta

SYNONYMOUS WITH
New Combinations in the Florida Flora (DB Ward, 2001):
Aristida stricta var. beyrichiana

Common Name:
Southern Wiregrass

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common
Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Look for it in sandhills, savannas, from very dry to seasonally saturated soils, per Weakley's Flora



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Leaves:
Simple
Primarily basal

Flower:
Summer/Fall
Panicle brownish

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Grain

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!




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image of Aristida stricta, image of Aristida beyrichiana
JK Marlow      jkm081009_209


October
Bamberg County SC

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Aristida stricta, image of Aristida beyrichiana
JK Marlow      jkm081009_212


October
Bamberg County SC

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

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