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It has been found in plant communities including pine, palmetto, and wet prairie. <ref name= "Hilman"> Hilmon, J. B. (1964). "Plants of the Caloosa Experimental Range " U.S. Forest Service Research Paper SE-12 </ref>
 
It has been found in plant communities including pine, palmetto, and wet prairie. <ref name= "Hilman"> Hilmon, J. B. (1964). "Plants of the Caloosa Experimental Range " U.S. Forest Service Research Paper SE-12 </ref>
  
This grass is most abundant in regions burned in the winter. <ref name= "Boughton"> [Boughton, E., et al. (2013). "Season of fire and nutrient enrichment affect plant community dynamics in subtropical semi-natural grasslands released from agriculture." Biological Conservation 158: 239-247.]</ref>
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This grass is most abundant in regions burned in the winter. <ref name= "Boughton"> Boughton, E., et al. (2013). "Season of fire and nutrient enrichment affect plant community dynamics in subtropical semi-natural grasslands released from agriculture." Biological Conservation 158: 239-247.</ref>
  
 
Recorded habitats include longleaf pine sandhills with wet depressions, cypress swamps, rich pasture, standing water, deciduous wooded bottoms on sandy levee, ponds, banks of rivers, and wooded floodplains. <ref name = "FSU herbarium"> URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Cecil R Slaughter, Jason R. Swallen, Robert Kral, Sidney McDaniel, Robert K. Godfrey, G. W. Reinert States and counties: Florida (Alachua, Osceola, Collier, Madison, Jackson, Leon, Nassau, Franklin) </ref>
 
Recorded habitats include longleaf pine sandhills with wet depressions, cypress swamps, rich pasture, standing water, deciduous wooded bottoms on sandy levee, ponds, banks of rivers, and wooded floodplains. <ref name = "FSU herbarium"> URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Cecil R Slaughter, Jason R. Swallen, Robert Kral, Sidney McDaniel, Robert K. Godfrey, G. W. Reinert States and counties: Florida (Alachua, Osceola, Collier, Madison, Jackson, Leon, Nassau, Franklin) </ref>

Revision as of 12:28, 26 March 2019

Common names: Big Carpetgrass

Axonopus furcatus
Axonopus furcatus AFP.jpg
Photo by the Atlas of Florida Plants Database
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Liliopsida - Moncots
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Axonopus
Species: A. furcatus
Binomial name
Axonopus furcatus
(Fluegge) Hitchcock

Taxonomic Notes

Synonym: Paspalum furcatum (Flügge)

Varieties: none

Description

A. furcatus is a perennial graminoid of the Poaceae family native to North America. [1]

Distribution

The A. furcatus is found along the Coastal Plains of Virginia to Florida and west to Texas and Arkansas. [1]

Ecology

Habitat

A. furcatus can be found in maritime forests, sandy forest, bottomlands, calcareous wet meadows and other coastal regions. [2]

It has been found in plant communities including pine, palmetto, and wet prairie. [3]

This grass is most abundant in regions burned in the winter. [4]

Recorded habitats include longleaf pine sandhills with wet depressions, cypress swamps, rich pasture, standing water, deciduous wooded bottoms on sandy levee, ponds, banks of rivers, and wooded floodplains. [5]

Phenology

This species has been observed to flower in June.[6]

Conservation and Management

It is listed as endangered and extirpated by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.[1]

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 USDA Plant Database
  2. Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
  3. Hilmon, J. B. (1964). "Plants of the Caloosa Experimental Range " U.S. Forest Service Research Paper SE-12
  4. Boughton, E., et al. (2013). "Season of fire and nutrient enrichment affect plant community dynamics in subtropical semi-natural grasslands released from agriculture." Biological Conservation 158: 239-247.
  5. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Cecil R Slaughter, Jason R. Swallen, Robert Kral, Sidney McDaniel, Robert K. Godfrey, G. W. Reinert States and counties: Florida (Alachua, Osceola, Collier, Madison, Jackson, Leon, Nassau, Franklin)
  6. Nelson, G. PanFlora: Plant data for the eastern United States with emphasis on the Southeastern Coastal Plains, Florida, and the Florida Panhandle. www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Accessed: 26 MAR 2019