. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. Key to bluestem grasses HABIT & HEIGHT, cm. LEAF & LIGULE X2 RACEME x 1 SPIKELET x5 1 RACEMES SOLITARY ON THE END OF EACH PEDUNCLE 2 Culms very slender, sprawl- ing, blades 1 mm. or less wide A. tener, slender bluestem-* 2 Culms more robust, erect; blades more than 1 mm. (3-6 mm.) wide 3 Pedicellate spikelet as long as or longer than the pedicel and almost as large as the sessile spikelet; sheaths usu- ally hairy A. diver gens, pinehill bluestem— 3 Pedicellate spikelet shorter than the pedicel and c
. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. Key to bluestem grasses HABIT & HEIGHT, cm. LEAF & LIGULE X2 RACEME x 1 SPIKELET x5 1 RACEMES SOLITARY ON THE END OF EACH PEDUNCLE 2 Culms very slender, sprawl- ing, blades 1 mm. or less wide A. tener, slender bluestem-* 2 Culms more robust, erect; blades more than 1 mm. (3-6 mm.) wide 3 Pedicellate spikelet as long as or longer than the pedicel and almost as large as the sessile spikelet; sheaths usu- ally hairy A. diver gens, pinehill bluestem— 3 Pedicellate spikelet shorter than the pedicel and consid- erably reduced; sheaths usu- ally glabrous A. scoparius, little bluestem— 1 RACEMES 2 TO SEVERAL ON THE END OF EACH PEDUNCLE 4 Blades no wider than 2 mm., generally glabrous, but some- times sparsely pilose along the margin near the ligule A. subtenuis, fineleaf bluestem— 4 Blades 2-10 mm. wide (a form of A. elliottii may have blades less than 2 mm. wide); lower sheath and blades densely pi- lose especially near ligule 5 Peduncles 5-15 cm. long (A. elliottii, primary inflores- cence) 6 Racemes in pairs, 3-6 cm. long, feathery, silver to cream in color 7 Spathes slender and in- conspicuous A. ternarius, paintbrush bluestem*. 4. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Grelen, Harold Eugene, 1929-; Duvall, Vinson Lamar, 1918-. [New Orleans] U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station
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