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Learn more about Andropogon from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
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) 029-87-002:
Andropogon gerardii
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Andropogon gerardi
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Andropogon provincialis
COMMON NAME:
Big Bluestem, Turkeyfoot
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JK Marlow jkm0506h_28
June Oconee County SC
Plant bluish-green, tufted, erect, often glaucous. Lf blades ~ 0.2-0.4" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
JK Marlow jkm160717_348
July Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
Grass flowers usually w 2 lodicules, 3 stamens, ovary w 2 feathery stigmas, per How to Know the Grasses by R.W. Pohl.
JK Marlow jkm160717_350
July Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
The once-endless tallgrass prairie with majestic big bluestem is past, per Book of Field and Roadside.
JK Marlow jkm0408k_36
August Oconee County SC
Isolated stands exist today mainly along railroads, fencerows and roadsides, per Book of Field and Roadside.
Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_andropogon_gerardii_3
August
Racemes on long-exserted terminal peduncle mostly 3-6, fewer on branches, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
JK Marlow s050917_c
September Cabarrus County NC
Suther Prairie
Flowering raceme has 3 branches arising from a common point (the Turkeyfoot), per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
JK Marlow s050917_d
September Cabarrus County NC
Suther Prairie
Bristles (awns) that project from the flowers are sharply bent, per Book of Field and Roadside.
JK Marlow jkm0311a_23
November Pickens County SC
Roadside
Purplish seedhead a narrow cluster of linear raceme resembling a turkeyfoot, per Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee.