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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sacciolepis striata   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sacciolepis striata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Sacciolepis striata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Sacciolepis striata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-80-001:

Sacciolepis striata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Sacciolepis striata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Sacciolepis striata

 

COMMON NAME:
American Cupscale


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image of Sacciolepis striata, American Cupscale

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sast_001_lvd

        

image of Sacciolepis striata, American Cupscale

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_sast_003_lvd

        

image of Sacciolepis striata, American Cupscale

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_sast_004_lvd

        

image of Sacciolepis striata, American Cupscale

Keith Bradley    kab_s_striata_7580

October        SC

Inflorescence a slender panicle w branches so short it may appear spikelike, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sacciolepis striata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sacciolepis striata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sacciolepis striata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Sacciolepis striata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-80-001:
Sacciolepis striata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Sacciolepis striata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sacciolepis striata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4064

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: marshes (especially tidal oligohaline), interdune swales, ditches, swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Stoloniferous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a narrowly cylindric panicle

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Grain grayish

 

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