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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Learn more about Muhlenbergia from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
An important part of the grassy component of many longleaf pine savannas, M. expansa’s flowering is stimulated by fire, and, lacking fire, it may be found in large populations in solely vegetative condition, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Muhlenbergia expansa
INCLUDED WITHIN Grasses of Florida (Hall, 2019)
Muhlenbergia sericea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)
Muhlenbergia expansa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Muhlenbergia capillaris var. trichopodes
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-45-001:
Muhlenbergia expansa FAMILY Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Muhlenbergia expansa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Muhlenbergia expansa
COMMON NAME:
Savannah Hairgrass, Cut-over Muhly
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_muex_001_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_muhlenbergia_expansa5
August Scotland County NC
Panicle capillary, flexuous, fragile, and tends to break up over the winter, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_muhlenbergia_expansa1
October Scotland County NC
Old leaf bases fibrous and curly (rather than hardened and cartilaginous), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Muhlenbergia expansa
INCLUDED WITHIN
Grasses of Florida (Hall, 2019)
Muhlenbergia sericea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Muhlenbergia expansa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Muhlenbergia capillaris var. trichopodes
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-45-001:
Muhlenbergia expansa
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Muhlenbergia expansa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Muhlenbergia expansa
952
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Habitat: pine savannas, pine flatwoods, mesic areas in sandhill-pocosin ecotones, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Lemmas brownish
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain blackish
Grain
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p177
- Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950) p405
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