OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Elymus hystrix var. hystrix   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Elymus hystrix var. hystrix   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24 (2007)

Elymus hystrix

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-24-001:

Hystrix patula   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Hystrix hystrix

 

COMMON NAME:
Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass


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image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_hypa3_001_lvd

        

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

JK Marlow    jkm170527_056

May    McCormick County    SC

Blades flat, mostly 7-15mm wide, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

JK Marlow    jkm170527_058

May    McCormick County    SC

Lemmas convex, rigid, tapering into slender, straight awns 1-4cm long, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

JK Marlow    jkm170527_061

May    McCormick County    SC

Awned spikelets spread at right angles to rachis; glumes absent or reduced, per How to Know the Grasses: Pictured Key Nature Series (Pohl, 1954).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE seedheads of Bottlebrush Grass, Cereal Rye, Little Barley, and Virginia Wild-rye

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

Gill Newberry    gn06_h_patula_inflorscenc

June        

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

Gill Newberry    gn06_hpatula_plant

June        

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

JK Marlow    jkm0406c_27

June    Chester County    SC

Landsford Canal State Park

Spikelets usually 2 per node of rachis, usually horizontally divergent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE seedheads of Bottlebrush Grass, Cereal Rye, Little Barley, and Virginia Wild-rye

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

JK Marlow    jkm0506m_29

June    Union County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

JK Marlow    jkm220626_8746

June    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmehystrix_wadakoe

June    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_hystrix_6_02_07_4

June    Floyd County    GA

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

JK Marlow    jkm180814_3809

August    McCormick County    SC

Parks Mill

image of Elymus hystrix var. hystrix, Common Bottlebrush Grass, Eastern Bottlebrush-grass

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmehystrix_wm1

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Rachis internodes 5-10mm, spikelets horizontally spreading toward maturity, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Elymus hystrix var. hystrix   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Elymus hystrix var. hystrix   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24
Elymus hystrix

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-24-001:
Hystrix patula   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hystrix hystrix

 

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733

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests, dry forests especially over more fertile soils, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Grain

 

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