Gymnopogon

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Gymnopogon

• Description

  Genus Description - Spikelets 1-fld (in ours), articulated above the glumes, sessile, appressed and remote along two sides of a slender triangular rachis; glumes subequal, subulate, 1-veined; lemma shorter than the glumes, narrow, rounded on the back, obscurely 3-veined, tipped with a short straight awn; rachilla often prolonged behind the palea, bearing at its summit a greatly reduced lemma or short awn; ours perennial, with short erect culms from a knotty rhizome, minute ligule, stiffly spreading lvs, and a large panicle of very slender, elongate, divaricate spikes. 10, New World.

• Common Names

  beard-grass