. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. BUSHY BLUESTEM Andropogon glomeratus (Walt.) BSP. Bushy bluestem, a stout bunchgrass 2 to 5 feet tall, is confined to wet sites: ditchbanks, pond margins, marshes, and swamps. The inflorescence is a large, dense bundle of silky racemes with leafy spathes interspersed. Density of the seed head is due to its drastically shortened branches and inter- nodes. Each of the many branches bears two racemes, the pair subtended by a spathe. Mature racemes are free from the spathes and equal to them in length. The simi
. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. BUSHY BLUESTEM Andropogon glomeratus (Walt.) BSP. Bushy bluestem, a stout bunchgrass 2 to 5 feet tall, is confined to wet sites: ditchbanks, pond margins, marshes, and swamps. The inflorescence is a large, dense bundle of silky racemes with leafy spathes interspersed. Density of the seed head is due to its drastically shortened branches and inter- nodes. Each of the many branches bears two racemes, the pair subtended by a spathe. Mature racemes are free from the spathes and equal to them in length. The similar broomsedge bluestem, which is fre- quently associated with bushy bluestem, has small- er, less conspicuous heads. A variety of broom- sedge bluestem, Andropogon virginicus var. hir- sutior (Hack.) Hitchc, closely resembles bushy bluestem. Because this variety is not abundant, separating it is usually unimportant. Bushy bluestem is not a valuable forage plant on longleaf pine-bluestem range. Since it occurs on sites seldom burned, the old growth reduces acces- sibility of green leaves. Range: Southern California and Nevada east to Florida, Kentucky, and Massachusetts. Perennial. Culms erect, stout, to 8 mm. thick, 50-150 cm. tall, compressed, bushy-branching above; sheaths longer than the internodes, flattened, rough, often pubescent in the throat, ciliate on the margins; ligule membranous, 1 mm. long, with a truncate, fimbriate margin; inflorescence dense, composed of a mass of slightly dilated spathes; racemes paired. 1-3 cm. long from spathes of about the same length; sessile spikelet 3-4 mm. long, the awn straight, cm. long; pedicellate spikelet reduced to a single subulate glume, its pedicel and the rachis joint silky villous and about the same length as the sessile Bushy bluestem 8. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustration
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