Revegetation or Rangeland
Indiangrass, yellow Indian-grass
SpikeletSpikelet:
One or more florets that are subtended by a pair of bracts called glumes. Spikelets are pedicellate if located on a pedicle and sessile if attached directly to the rachis. Often spikelets with single florets have remnants of a second floret, usually a lemma.
Lanceolate
Brownish-yellow and dark brown
Long hairs on base, rachis segmentRachis segment:
A segment of the central axis of the inflorescence (rachis). In some species (e.g. Andropogon) separation of the sessile spikelets occurs when the rachis disarticulates at the spikelet bases leaving the segment of the rachis between spikelets attached to the lower spikelet.
and pedicelPedicel:
The stalk within an inflorescence supporting a single flower or spikelet.
; long awnAwn:
A narrow, bristle-like organ, as on the glumes or lemmas of grasses (Poaceae).
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Thin; not visible.
Thin; not visible.
Thin rachis segmentRachis segment:
A segment of the central axis of the inflorescence (rachis). In some species (e.g. Andropogon) separation of the sessile spikelets occurs when the rachis disarticulates at the spikelet bases leaving the segment of the rachis between spikelets attached to the lower spikelet. and pedicelPedicel:
The stalk within an inflorescence supporting a single flower or spikelet.
First glume flat, second glume strongly ridged. The thin and narrow rachis segmentRachis segment:
A segment of the central axis of the inflorescence (rachis). In some species (e.g. Andropogon) separation of the sessile spikelets occurs when the rachis disarticulates at the spikelet bases leaving the segment of the rachis between spikelets attached to the lower spikelet. and pedicelPedicel:
The stalk within an inflorescence supporting a single flower or spikelet.
are useful for identification.
Not listed
Included
Poaceae
Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash
Andropogon nutans L.
Sorghastrum avenaceum (Michx.) Nash
