Silver beard grass

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Silver beard grass
Silver bearded grass seeds

Silver bearded grass seeds

Systematics
Commelinids
Order : Sweet grass (Poales)
Family : Sweet grasses (Poaceae)
Subfamily : Panicoideae
Genre : Bothriochloa
Type : Silver beard grass
Scientific name
Bothriochloa saccharoides
( Sw. ) Rydb.

The silver bearded grass ( Bothriochloa saccharoides ) is a species of the sweet grass family (Poaceae).

features

The silver bearded grass is a perennial, herbaceous clump plant that reaches heights of 60 to 130 centimeters. The mostly 15 to 30, sometimes more vine grapes are 2 to 6 centimeters long and each have 5 to 10 pairs of spikelets. The sitting spikelets are 2.8 to 6.5 millimeters long and have a 10 to 15 millimeter long awn . The stalked spikelets are not awned and 2 to 4 millimeters long.

The flowering period extends from July to September.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 60 or 120.

Occurrence

The species occurs in the pampas from the southern United States across Central America to Brazil, Argentina and Chile .

Systematics

One can distinguish the following subspecies:

  • Bothriochloa saccharoides subsp. americana Scrivanti : It occurs from the southern United States to Mexico.
  • Bothriochloa saccharoides subsp. australis Scrivanti : It occurs in tropical South America.
  • Bothriochloa saccharoides subsp. saccharoides : It occurs in Central America and the Caribbean.

use

The silver bearded grass is rarely used as an ornamental plant for natural gardens.

literature

  • Eckehart J. Jäger, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd K. Müller (eds.): Excursion flora from Germany . Founded by Werner Rothmaler. tape 5 : Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants . Springer, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8 , pp. 820 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tropicos. [1]
  2. ↑ a b c d e Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Bothriochloa saccharoides. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 18, 2016.

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