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

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



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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image of Muhlenbergia expansa, Savannah Hairgrass, Cut-over Muhly

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_muex_001_lvd

        

image of Muhlenbergia expansa, Savannah Hairgrass, Cut-over Muhly

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).

image of Muhlenbergia expansa, Savannah Hairgrass, Cut-over Muhly

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

 

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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

 

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