Aristida longespica Poir.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Texas

• County/Municipio

  Bastrop Co.

• Locality

  ca. 0.5 airmiles E of Harmon Road from a point ca. 0.6 roadmiles N of jct. St. Rt. 71. Bastrop State Park. Smithville Quadrangle

• Elevation

  Alt. 155 - 158 m. (509 - 518 ft.)

• Coordinates

  30.098, -97.2405

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

FLORA OF TEXAS
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Aristida longespica Poir.
BASTROP CO.: rare, a few plants in sparsely vegetated
areas in burned-over loblolly pine - post oak forest on gentle
slope underlain by Eocene sands of the Reklaw Formation,
on sandy soils mapped as Axtell-Tabor complex, ca. 0.5
airmiles E of Harmon Road from a point ca. 0.6 roadmiles N
of jet. St. Rt. 71, at N30°05.878\ W097°14.429\ Bastrop
State Park. Smithville Quadrangle. Elev. 510-520 ft. Area
burned during Bastrop Complex Wildfire of September
2011.
Associates included Centrosema virginianum, Dichanthelium spp.,
Panicum brachyanthum, Polypremum procumbens, Rhynchospora
harveyi.
W. R. Carr	#31007	28 June 2012
(with Brush Freeman and Mike Quinn)
03176546