Sporobolus floridanus
Sporobolus floridanus | |
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Photo by Bobby Hattaway hosted at Discoverlife.org | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
Class: | Liliopsida - Moncots |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Genus: | Sporobolus |
Species: | S. floridanus |
Binomial name | |
Sporobolus floridanus Chapm. | |
Natural range of Sporobolus floridanus from USDA NRCS Plants Database. |
Common Name(s): Florida dropseed[1]
Contents
Taxonomic Notes
Description
‘’Sporobolus floridanus’’ is a monoecious perennial graminoid. [2]
Distribution
It can be found in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.[1][2]
Ecology
Habitat
S. floridanus is found in wet savannas,[1], seepage bogs, and titi/cypress swamps and is abundant in wet pine savannas.[3] In north Florida mesic flatwoods S. floridanus occurred in 53% of plots with a mean coverage of 0.0613 m-2 and was the sole herbaceous indicator species this community type.[4]
Phenology
This species flowers from June through September.[1]
Seed dispersal
This species is thought to be dispersed by gravity. [5]
Fire ecology
In Georgia, the percent cover of S. floridanus increased from 0.4% after one growing season following a burn to 1.0% after 8 growing seasons.[6]
Conservation and Management
Cultivation and restoration
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References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Weakley A. S.(2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Herbarium.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 USDA, NRCS. (2016). The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 10 January 2018). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA.
- ↑ Drewa P. B., Platt W. J., and Moser E. B. (2002). Community structure along elevation gradients in headwater regions of longleaf pine savannas. Plant Ecology 160(1):61-78.
- ↑ Carr S. C., Robertson K. M., and Peet R. K. (2010). A vegetation classification of fire-dependent pinelands of Florida. Castanea 75(2):153-189.
- ↑ Kirkman, L. Katherine. Unpublished database of seed dispersal mode of plants found in Coastal Plain longleaf pine-grasslands of the Jones Ecological Research Center, Georgia.
- ↑ Lemon P. C. (1949). Successional responses of herbs in the longleaf-slash pine forest after fire. Ecology 30(2):135-145.