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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Polypogon viridis   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polypogon viridis   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Polypogon viridis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24 (2007)

Polypogon viridis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Polypogon viridis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Agrostis viridis

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Agrostis verticillata

INCLUDING Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Agrostis semiverticillata

 

COMMON NAME:
Water Bent-grass, beardless rabbitsfoot grass


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image of Polypogon viridis, Water Bent-grass, beardless rabbitsfoot grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_agse2_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Polypogon viridis   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polypogon viridis   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polypogon viridis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24
Polypogon viridis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Polypogon viridis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Agrostis viridis

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Agrostis verticillata

INCLUDING Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Agrostis semiverticillata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4895

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Springs, creekbeds, also introduced on ballast around old ports (where probably not persistent), per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Old World

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Not rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
3 stamens
Bisexual

Inflorescence a dense, spikelike panicle

FRUIT:

 

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