Details for: W6 61188, Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash, NM080-333


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash
Top Name:
NM080-333
Origin:
Collected – New Mexico, United States
Received by NPGS:
01 May 2023
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
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Seed100 countW6 61188 2023o SD
 
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SEED

Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash
Top Name:
NM080-333
Origin:
Collected – New Mexico, United States
Received by NPGS:
01 May 2023
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Donated
01 May 2023.
Idaho, United States

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Accession Group(s)
Group name: Seeds of Success (SOS)
Note: Seeds of success project
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Accession Names and Identifiers
NM080-333
Type: Collector identifier
Group: SOS
Seeds of Success Project
, Bureau of Land Management, SOS project

W6 61188
Type: Site identifier
Group: W6
Western Regional Plant Introduction (W6) accession numbers
USDA-ARS, Western Regional Plant Introduction Station

Narrative
Perennial grass with either densely clumped or rhizomatous growth habit. Culms range from green to purple-red. Inflorescence consists of terminal rames 2.5-8 cm long with paired spikelets: one sessile and fertile and one pedicellate and staminate or sterile. Rame internodes are ciliate with long hairs. Rames tend to be reflexed at maturity.
Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash
Genus:
Schizachyrium
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Andropogoninae
Nomen number:

70698
Place of publication:

J. K. Small, Fl. s.e. U.S. 59, 1326. 1903
Verified:
02/08/2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash subsp. divergens (Hack.) Gandhi & Smeins (0 active accession[s])
Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash subsp. littorale (Nash) Gandhi & Smeins (10 active accession[s])
Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash subsp. neomexicanum (Nash) Gandhi & Smeins (0 active accession[s])
Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash subsp. scoparium (5 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishlittle bluestem  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishprairie beard grass  11961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Swedishpräriegräs  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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Herbarium specimen
  • 09 Nov 2022. Located at Institute for Applied Ecology. Inventory sample: W6 61188 2023o. Patrick Alexander, BLM.
  • 09 Nov 2022. Located at New Mexico State University. Inventory sample: W6 61188 2023o. Patrick Alexander, BLM.
  • 09 Nov 2022. Located at Smithsonian. Inventory sample: W6 61188 2023o. Patrick Alexander, BLM.
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