Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Triplasis purpurea var. purpurea
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Learn more about Triplasis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triplasis purpurea
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Triplasis purpurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)
Triplasis purpurea var. purpurea
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-09-002:
Triplasis purpurea FAMILY Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Triplasis purpurea
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triplasis intermedia
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triplasis purpurea
COMMON NAME:
Purple Sandgrass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trpu4_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_trpu4_002_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_t_purpurea_71662
August Miami-Dade County FL
Spikelets usually purplish. Lemmas cleft, awns straight, 0.5-1.5mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Triplasis purpurea var. purpurea
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triplasis purpurea
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Triplasis purpurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Triplasis purpurea var. purpurea
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-09-002:
Triplasis purpurea
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Triplasis purpurea
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triplasis intermedia
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triplasis purpurea
4084
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual
Habitat: dunes, maritime dry grasslands, open sandy areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Spikelets usually purple
Inflorescence a few-flowered open terminal panicle (plus cleistogamous spikelets
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Grain yellowish
Grain
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