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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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 ternarius
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Andropogon ternarius var. ternarius
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-87-005:
Andropogon ternarius
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Andropogon ternarius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Andropogon ternarius
COMMON NAME:
Splitbeard Bluestem, Silvery Bluestem
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JK Marlow jkm120628_341
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120628_343
June Greenville County SC
Narrow glaucous blue-green summer foliage turns copper-red-bronze in fall. — Patrick McMillan
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JK Marlow jkm120908_361b
September Greenville County SC
Grass flowers usually w 2 lodicules, 3 stamens, ovary w 2 feathery stigmas, per How to Know the Grasses by R.W. Pohl.
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JK Marlow jkm200907_7106
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200920_7339
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm0410c_26
October Greenville County SC
Field
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JK Marlow jkm0510f_24
October Oconee County SC
Field
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Keith Bradley kab_a_ternarius_4791
October Lancaster County SC
Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve
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Keith Bradley kab_a_ternarius_70436
October Miami-Dade County FL
Everglades National Park
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JK Marlow s041002_a
October Greenville County SC
Field
I predict that Splitbeard Bluestem will become one of your favorite grasses, per Gardening with Native Plants of the South.
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JK Marlow s041002_a2
October Greenville County SC
Field
Racemes 2-3, conspicuously white villous, 1.5-5cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0211c_15 on left
November Greenville County SC
Roadside
Splitbeard Bluestem on the left; Broomsedge on the right
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JK Marlow jkm0211k_01
November Greenville County SC
Field
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JK Marlow jkm0211k_06
November Greenville County SC
Roadside
The paired, copiously hairy racemes are on peduncles 5-12cm, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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JK Marlow jkm0211k_11
November Greenville County SC
Roadside
Each feathery seed tuft, in a "V", catches the light and amplifies it, per Gardening with Native Plants of the South.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_andropogon_tenarius_3
November