Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Polypogon viridis
FAMILY
Poaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polypogon viridis
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polypogon viridis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24 (2007)
Polypogon viridis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Polypogon viridis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Agrostis viridis
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Agrostis verticillata
INCLUDING Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Agrostis semiverticillata
COMMON NAME:
Water Bent-grass, beardless rabbitsfoot grass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_agse2_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Polypogon viridis
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polypogon viridis
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polypogon viridis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24
Polypogon viridis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Polypogon viridis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Agrostis viridis
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Agrostis verticillata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Agrostis semiverticillata
4895
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Habitat: Springs, creekbeds, also introduced on ballast around old ports (where probably not persistent), per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Old World
Waif(s)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Not rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
3 stamens
Bisexual
Inflorescence a dense, spikelike panicle
FRUIT:
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