Nolina greenei
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Nolina greenei is a species of the genus Nolina in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). An English common name is "Woodland Beargrass".
description
Nolina greenei grows without a trunk and forms robust clumps 1 to 2 m in diameter. The variable, grass-like, strong, light green, fibrous, concave-convex, falling to the ground leaves are 40 to 120 cm long and 4 to 8 mm wide. The leaf margins are finely serrated or smooth.
The inflorescence , which is branched in the leaves, becomes 0.3 to 0.7 m long. The white flowers are 2 to 3.5 mm long. The flowering period extends from May to July.
When ripe, the woody, pressed capsule fruits are 4 to 6 mm long and wide. The brown, spherical seeds are 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter.
Nolina greenei is frost hardy to minus 18 ° C. She is hardly known.
Distribution and systematics
Nolina greenei is common in the US states of New Mexico , Colorado and Oklahoma in limited areas at altitudes of 1400 to 2100 m. It grows in sandy and stony soil on flat hills and is associated with Yucca harrimaniae subsp. neomexicana , Cylindropuntia imbricata and other cactus species.
Nolina greenei is a member of the Erumpentes section . The appearance is similar to Nolina texana , but Nolina greenei has wider leaves.
It was first described in 1915 by Elmer Ottis Wooton and Paul Carpenter Standley .
photos
In June
Extremely rare in Colorado
Typical landscape in untouched nature
In New Mexico
On a flat hill
proof
literature
- Fritz Hochstätter : The Genus Nolina. (Nolinaceae) . Piante Grasse, 2010, p. 16 .
