Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Culms 1.5-6 dm. tall, erect or decumbent, from a stout creeping rootstock. Sheaths numerous, short, overlapping and crowded at the lower part of the culm, smooth, glabrous or sometimes pilose on the margins and at the throat; leaves 2.5-20 em. long, 4 mm. wide or less at the base, distichous, acuminate into a long point, involute on the margins and at the apex, smooth beneath scabrous above or sometimes sparingly hairy; panicle 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 4-10 mm. thick, dense and spike-like, usually exserted; spikelets 2-2.5 mm. long, the outer scales about equal, acute, smooth and glabrous; third scale smooth and glabrous, acute, slightly shorter than the second and about equalling the obtuse palet.
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Discussion
Distribution and ecology: Moist situations, especially in brackish swamps, Great Bahama, Gun Cay, Andros, New Providence. Eleuthera, Rum Cay, Long Island, Fortune Island, Crooked Island, Grand Turk, Little Inagua, Inagua, Water Cay, and Anguilla Isles : Bermuda ; Virginia to Florida and Texas ; West Indies and tropical continental America. Sea-shore Rush-gkass.
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Distribution
Great Bahama, Gun Cay, Andros, New Providence. Eleuthera, Rum Cay, Long Island, Fortune Island, Crooked Island, Grand Turk, Little Inagua, Inagua, Water Cay, and Anguilla Isles : Bermuda ; Virginia to Florida and Texas ; West Indies and tropical continental America.
Andros Island Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Bermuda South America| Virginia United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| West Indies|