Biology:Andropogon arctatus

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Andropogon arctatus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Genus: Andropogon
Species:
A. arctatus
Binomial name
Andropogon arctatus
Chapm.

Andropogon arctatus, the Florida bluestem or pinewoods bluestem, is a perennial grass species endemic to the American states of Florida and Alabama.[1][2] A. arctatus can be found in habitat types such as pine flatwoods, scrub, and within savanna communities.[3] It does best in dry to wet loamy sand.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Weakley, A.S. 2020. Flora of the Southeastern United States. Edition of 20 October 2020. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
  2. ↑ Austin, Daniel F. (January 2004). "Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. Second Edition" (in en). Economic Botany 58 (1): 119–120. doi:10.1663/0013-0001(2004)058[0119:DFABRE2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0013-0001. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1663/0013-0001%282004%29058%5B0119%3ADFABRE%5D2.0.CO%3B2. 
  3. ↑ Kral, Robert (1983). A report on some rare, threatened, or endangered forest-related vascular plants of the South. Southern Region, Atlanta, Ga.: USDA Forest Service. 
  4. ↑ Wunderlin, Richard P.; Hansen, Bruce F. (2003). Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (2nd ed.). University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0813026329. 

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