Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Triplasis americana
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Learn more about Triplasis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triplasis americana
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Triplasis americana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)
Triplasis americana
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-09-001:
Triplasis americana FAMILY Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Triplasis americana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triplasis americana
COMMON NAME:
Southern Sandgrass, Perennial Sandgrass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_tram7_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_t_americana_70133
October Marion County FL
Silver River State Park
Spikelets usually purplish. Lemmas deeply cleft, awn more than 5mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Keith Bradley kab_t_americana_7979
October SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Triplasis americana
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triplasis americana
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Triplasis americana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Triplasis americana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-09-001:
Triplasis americana
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Triplasis americana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triplasis americana
4085
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, beach dunes, open sandy areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets usually purple
Inflorescence a narrow panicle or raceme
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain olive-green
Grain
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