OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triplasis americana   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Triplasis americana

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

Triplasis americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-09-001:

Triplasis americana   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Triplasis americana

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

Triplasis americana

 

COMMON NAME:
Southern Sandgrass, Perennial Sandgrass


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image of Triplasis americana, Southern Sandgrass, Perennial Sandgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_tram7_001_lvd

        

image of Triplasis americana, Southern Sandgrass, Perennial Sandgrass

Keith Bradley    kab_t_americana_70133

October    Marion County    FL

Silver River State Park

Spikelets usually purplish. Lemmas deeply cleft, awn more than 5mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Triplasis americana, Southern Sandgrass, Perennial Sandgrass

Keith Bradley    kab_t_americana_7979

October        SC

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triplasis americana   FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Triplasis americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-09-001:
Triplasis americana   FAMILY Poaceae

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

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4085

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, beach dunes, open sandy areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets usually purple

Inflorescence a narrow panicle or raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain olive-green
Grain

 

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