OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Triplasis purpurea var. purpurea, Purple Sandgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_trpu4_001_lvd

        

image of Triplasis purpurea var. purpurea, Purple Sandgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_trpu4_002_lvd

        

image of Triplasis purpurea var. purpurea, Purple Sandgrass

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

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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