Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Microstegium vimineum
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Learn more about Japanese Stiltgrass from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
The following chronological synopsis of flora accounts of Microstegium is instructive: not treated by Small (1933), "local" (Fernald 1950), "rarely introduced and possibly not established" (Gleason & Cronquist 1952), "sporadically naturalized" (Godfrey & Wooten 1979), "a rapidly spreading pernicious invader on moist ground, too common" (Wofford 1989), per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Microstegium vimineum
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-84-001:
Microstegium vimineum FAMILY Poaceae
COMMON NAME:
Japanese Stiltgrass, Japanese-grass, Nepalese Browntop, Nepal Grass
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Microstegium vimineum
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Microstegium vimineum
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-84-001:
Microstegium vimineum
FAMILY
Poaceae
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