Details for: NSL 439979, Sporobolus texanus Vasey, 9029932


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Sporobolus texanus Vasey
Top Name:
9029932
Origin:
Collected – Texas, United States
Received by NPGS:
31 Mar 2004
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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Seed available for distribution is a limited resource. The quantity of seed distributed is hopefully sufficient to conduct the intended research. If additional seed is required, the recipient is urged to grow and reproduce the seed. Repeated requests for seed of the same accession will not be honored.
  
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Sporobolus texanus Vasey
Top Name:
9029932
Origin:
Collected – Texas, United States
Received by NPGS:
31 Mar 2004
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
1982.
Texas, United States

Donated
2004.
Texas, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
9029932
Type: Institute identifier

NSL 439979
Type: Site identifier
Group: NSSL
National Seed Storage Laboratory (USA)
USDA ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Narrative
Duck Creek Germplasm Texas dropseed is a tufted erect perennial, warm-season bunchgrass indigenous to low, moist, somewhat saline or alkaline areas. It is widely distributed from western Kansas and eastern Colorado to western Texas and into New Mexico and Arizona. Stems are slender, 30-70 cm tall often somewhat decumbent at the base. Leaf sheaths are rounded, glabrous or pubescent, blades are flat or folded rather stiff and are from 2.5-10 cm long and 1-4 mm wide. The inflorescence consists of a diffused panicle 15-30 cm long and about as wide, with widely spreading branches and branchlets. Spikelets are 2.3-3.3 mm long and are widely spaced on spreading branchlets. Plants reproduce from seed. Potential uses include range seeding and revegetation on disturbed or damaged sites that have saline problems. Texas dropseed may be used in areas where alkali sacaton and Fourwing saltbush is adapted. Mostly in low, moist, somewhat saline or alkaline areas or adjacent to oil wells sites almost denuded of vegetation.
Sporobolus texanus Vasey
Genus:
Sporobolus
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
Tribe:
Zoysieae
Subtribe:
Sporobolinae
Nomen number:

103569
Place of publication:

Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1:57. 1890
Verified:
02/04/2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishTexas dropseed  1Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
Pedigree

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MORPHOLOGYSeed weight 100Weight of 100 seeds in grams.0.035 GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISNSL 439979 2006o SDNot Available