Flower, Revegetation or Rangeland, Weed
splitbeard bluestem
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
Light brown
Hairy
Not visible under glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
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AwnAwn:
A narrow, bristle-like organ, as on the glumes or lemmas of grasses (Poaceae).
long, twisted and geniculateGeniculate:
Bent at a sharp angle.
Hairy pedicelPedicel:
The stalk within an inflorescence supporting a single flower or spikelet.
and 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.
with longitudinal groove.
Not listed
Not included
Poaceae
Andropogon ternarius Michx.
