Coleataenia rigidula
Common Names: Redtop panic grass [1]
| Coleataenia rigidula | |
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| Photo by the Atlas of Florida Plants Database | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class: | Liliopsida - Moncots |
| Order: | Cyperales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Coleataenia |
| Species: | C. rigidula |
| Binomial name | |
| Coleataenia rigidula (Bosc ex Nees) | |
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| Natural range of Coleataenia rigidula from Weakley [2] | |
Contents
Taxonomic Notes
Synonyms: none
Variety: C. condensa (Nash)
Subspecies: C. rigidula (Bosc ex Nees) LeBlond ssp. condensa (Nash) LeBlond
Description
C. rigidula is a perennial gaminoid of the Poaceae family that is native to North America. [1]
Distribution
C. rigidula can be found across the eastern side of North America and along the western coast of the United States and Canada. [1]
Ecology
Habitat
Ideal habitat for C. rigidula is in moist regions, fore instance, wooded floodplains, marshes, moist loamy sand at edge of woods, moist depressions, lower tidal hammock, swamp forests, pine flatwoods, edge of rivers, bottomland of wooded areas, and shores of lakes. [3]
Conservation and Management
Cultivation and restoration
Photo Gallery
References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 USDA Plant Database
- ↑ Weakley, Alan S. 2015. Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States: Working Draft of 21 May 2015. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 1320 pp.
- ↑ URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Cecil R. Slaughter, M.Darst, H. Light, L. Peed, D.L. Martin, S. T. Cooper, J.B. McFarlin, R. Kral, F.C. Craighead, R.K. Godfrey, Richard Houk, John Palis, Sandy Thompson, J.P. Gillespie, Sydney Thompson, Culver Gidden, R.J. Eaton, Olga Lakela, A.F.Clewell, Robt. Blaisdell, Gary R. Knight, Keith Bradley. States and counties: Florida (Franklin, Oscelola, Wakulla, Levy, Madison, Marion, Hardee, Brevard, Dade, Charlotte, Pinellas, Dixie, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Liberty, Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, Suwannee, Washington, Hamilton, Calhoun, Nassau, Collier, Gulf, Taylor) South Carolina (Laurens)
