Revegetation or Rangeland
prairie sandreed
FloretFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil.
Lanceolate
Brown
Smooth
Pointed and clasping
Bowed outward with a longitudinal groove
Tuft of long, silky hair protruding laterally from the callusCallus:
The hard base of grass florets or spikelets, just above the point of disarticulation.
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The laterally protruding hair is unique. The caryopsisCaryopsis:
The single-seeded fruit or grain of the grass family (Poaceae); the fruit wall (pericarp) is united with the seed coat (testa).
is round in the cross-section, and the endospermEndosperm:
Nutritive tissue originating from union of the two polar nuclei with a sperm nucleus.
is quite translucent.
Not listed
Not included
Poaceae
Calamovilfa longifolia (Hook.) Scribn.
Sporobolus rigidus (Buckley) P.M. Peterson
Vilfa rigida Buckley
