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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sporobolus jacquemontii   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sporobolus indicus var. pyramidalis   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Sporobolus pyramidalis

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

Sporobolus jacquemontii

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Sporobolus indicus var. pyramidalis

(?) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Sporobolus berteroanus

 

COMMON NAME:
West Indian Dropseed


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image of Sporobolus jacquemontii, West Indian Dropseed

Keith Bradley    kab_s_jacquemontii_71772

June    Monroe County    FL

Culms 40-100cm. Blades 10-40cm long, 2-4mm wide, tapering to a fine point, per Grass Manual on the Web.

image of Sporobolus jacquemontii, West Indian Dropseed

Keith Bradley    kab_s_jacquemontii_4139

August    Miami-Dade County    FL

Primary branches appressed to strongly ascending, spikelet-bearing to base, per Grass Manual on the Web.

image of Sporobolus jacquemontii, West Indian Dropseed

Keith Bradley    kab_s_jacquemontii_4142

August    Miami-Dade County    FL

Panicles 14-35cm long, 0.4-3cm wide, contracted, interrupted, and rather lax, per Grass Manual on the Web.


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sporobolus jacquemontii   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sporobolus indicus var. pyramidalis   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sporobolus pyramidalis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Sporobolus jacquemontii

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Sporobolus indicus var. pyramidalis

(?) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sporobolus berteroanus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4088

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: pine flatwoods, beaches, roadsides on barrier islands, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: New World tropics & subtropics & ? the exact extent of the range unclear

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Densely cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], not rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a spikelike panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Utricle

 

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