Broomsedge Bluestem
Scientific Name: Andropogon virginicus
Dried, erect, straw-colored grass persists in winter, standing out from the background. Found in dry meadows, pastures, fields, roadsides, and waste areas with low-fertility soils.
Broomsedge Bluestem
Scientific Name: Andropogon virginicus
Broomsedge Bluestem
| Genus species: | Andropogon virginicus | |||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Broomsedge Bluestem | |||||||||||
| Family Name: | Poaceae 
Annual or perennial herbs, or woody in a few genera; stems terete, internodes hollow or solid; leaves alternate, 2-ranked, simple, and parallel-veined, with sheathing bases, the sheaths usually open, typically with a ligule at junction of sheath and blade; flowers (florets) bisexual or unisexual, subtended by bracts (a lemma and usually a palea), in spikelets usually subtended by a pair of bracts (glumes); fruit a caryopsis. | |||||||||||
| Seed Type: | Angiosperm | |||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Native | |||||||||||
| Category: | Grass | |||||||||||
| CNC Habitat: | Nature Playscape | |||||||||||
| Identified by: | A. Swanson | |||||||||||
| Months in Bloom: The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicates the month(s) the plant has been observed blooming. | ||||||||||||
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