Details for: NSL 26431, Andropogon gerardi Vitman, 'CHAMP'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Andropogon gerardi Vitman
Cultivar:
'CHAMP'
Origin:
Collected – Nebraska, United States
Received by NPGS:
May 1963
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Andropogon gerardi Vitman
Cultivar:
'CHAMP'
Origin:
Collected – Nebraska, United States
Received by NPGS:
May 1963
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Collected
1962.
Nebraska, United States

Developed

Nebraska, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
May 1963.
Nebraska, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'CHAMP'
Type: Cultivar name

Narrative
Leafy. Intermediate to parent types in many characteristics. Culm and glume color variable. Good vegetative growth in midsummer. Matures 7-10 days earlier than Pawnee. High, good quality seed yields. Grown in solid stands or mixtures of warm-season grasses for conservation and forage uses on sandy and fine-textured soils in eastern Nebraska.
Andropogon gerardi Vitman
Genus:
Andropogon
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Andropogoninae
Nomen number:

3215
Place of publication:

Summa pl. 6:16. 1792
Comment:
the original spelling is permissible under Shenzhen ICN Rec. 60C.2, since the given name Gerard or Gérard, which dates at least to the Early Middle Ages when Latin was the international language of Europe, has a well-established latinized form and is not correctable under Shenzhen ICN Art. 60.8
Verified:
07/11/1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
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Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Andropogon gerardi Vitman subsp. gerardi
Andropogon gerardi Vitman var. gerardi

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Andropogon furcatus Muhl. ex Willd.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbig bluestem  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishturkeyfoot  11961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Frenchbarbon de Gerard  2Campbell, C. S. 1993-. In: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America. 25:653. Note: as "Andropogon gerardii"
Spanishpopotillo gigante  2Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
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Pedigree
Description:
Developed by cossing divergent types of big bluestem (5 clones) with sand bluestem (5 clones).
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration. CV-2, BLUESTEM. Issued: 01 Jul 1968.
  • Newell, L. C. 1968. Crop Sci. (Madison) 8(4):515. Note: CV-2