Aristida lanosa Elliott

• 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

  Aristida lanosa Elliott

• Description

  Species Description - Perennial; culms stout, solitary or few together, 5–15 dm, the nodes mostly covered by the sheaths, these woolly with soft, tangled hairs; lvs flat, 3–6 dm × 2–5 mm; infl 2–5 dm, with woolly nodes and loose, slender, ascending branches; glumes 1-veined, the first slightly falcate-outcurved, scabrous on the keel and usually puberulent on the sides, 9.5–19 mm, the second glabrous or nearly so, somewhat shorter, 8–15 mm; lemma 7–12 mm, scabrous distally; central awn 1.5–3 cm, conspicuously deflexed to one side; lateral awns half to two-thirds as long. Dry sandy soil on the coastal plain; N.J. to Fla. and Tex., thence ne. to Mo. and Okla.

• Common Names

  woolly three-awn