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Taxon: Muhlenbergia sericea (Michx.) P. M. Peterson

Genus:

Muhlenbergia

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Cynodonteae

Subtribe:

Muhlenbergiinae

Nomen number:

455160

Place of publication:

Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 41:167. 2001

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

30-Apr-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

(=) Muhlenbergia filipes M. A. Curtis
Basionym: Stipa sericea Michx.

Common names:

dune-hair grass (Source: F NAmer) - English
purple muhly (Source: F NAmer) - English
sweet grass (Source: New Crops) - English

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental
Materials: cane (for sweetgrass basketry, as Muhlenbergia filipes)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Florida, Georgia (s.), Mississippi (s.e.), South Carolina (s.e.)]

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Reference:

FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.

Check other web resources for Muhlenbergia sericea (Michx.) P. M. Peterson :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=455160. Accessed 6 July 2024.