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===Habitat=== <!--Natural communities, human disturbed habitats, topography, hydrology, soils, light, fire regime requirements for removal of competition, etc.--> | ===Habitat=== <!--Natural communities, human disturbed habitats, topography, hydrology, soils, light, fire regime requirements for removal of competition, etc.--> | ||
| − | ''C. laxum'' can be found in savanna-pocosin ecotones, sandhill-pocosin ecotones, moist hardwood swamps, bottomland hardwood forests, mesic hammocks, and other moist habitats.<ref name= "Weakley 2015"> Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium. </ref><ref name = FNAI>Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2010. Guide to the natural communities of Florida: 2010 edition. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, 228 pg.</ref> It also occurs in upland closed-canopy forests where fire is excluded, including slope forest upland hardwood (beech-magnolia) forest.<ref name = "FNAI"> | + | ''C. laxum'' can be found in savanna-pocosin ecotones, sandhill-pocosin ecotones, moist hardwood swamps, bottomland hardwood forests, mesic hammocks, and other moist habitats.<ref name= "Weakley 2015"> Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium. </ref><ref name = "FNAI">Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2010. Guide to the natural communities of Florida: 2010 edition. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, 228 pg.</ref> It also occurs in upland closed-canopy forests where fire is excluded, including slope forest upland hardwood (beech-magnolia) forest.<ref name = "FNAI"> |
===Phenology=== <!--Timing off flowering, fruiting, seed dispersal, and environmental triggers. Cite PanFlora website if appropriate: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ --> | ===Phenology=== <!--Timing off flowering, fruiting, seed dispersal, and environmental triggers. Cite PanFlora website if appropriate: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ --> | ||
Revision as of 11:05, 22 August 2018
Common name: slender woodoats [1], slender spikegrass [2]
| Chasmanthium laxum | |
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| Photo from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class: | Liliopsida - Moncots |
| Order: | Cyperales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Chasmanthium |
| Species: | C. laxum |
| Binomial name | |
| Chasmanthium laxum (L) Yates | |
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| Natural range of Chasmanthium laxum from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
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Taxonomic Notes
Synonyms: Uniola laxa (Linnaeus) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenburg; Chasmanthium laxum var. laxum
Varieties: none
Description
C. laxum is a perennial graminoid of the Poaceae family native to North America. [1]
Distribution
C. laxum can be found along the southeastern coast from Texas to New York. [1]
Ecology
Habitat
C. laxum can be found in savanna-pocosin ecotones, sandhill-pocosin ecotones, moist hardwood swamps, bottomland hardwood forests, mesic hammocks, and other moist habitats.[2][3] It also occurs in upland closed-canopy forests where fire is excluded, including slope forest upland hardwood (beech-magnolia) forest.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag It is also shade-tolerant, enabling it to thrive under the canopy of other plants. [4]
Fire ecology
C. laxum is not fire resistant and has no fire tolerance. [1]
Use by animals
C. laxum is highly palatable to browsing and grazing animals. [1]
Conservation and Management
C. laxum is listed as an endangered species by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Land and Forests, and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. [1]
Cultivation and restoration
Photo Gallery
References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 USDA Plant Database https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CHLA6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
- ↑ Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2010. Guide to the natural communities of Florida: 2010 edition. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, 228 pg.
- ↑ Iglay, R. B., et al. (2010). "Effect of plant community composition on plant response to fire and herbicide treatments." Forest Ecology and Management 260: 543-548.
