Melica mutica
Walter
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Family: Poaceae
Two-Flower Melic Grass
[ Melica diffusa Pursh , more, Melica glabra , Melica muhlenbergiana Schult., Melica mutica f. diffusa (Pursh) Fernald, Melica mutica f. mutica Walter, Melica mutica var. diffusa (Pursh) A. Gray, Melica mutica var. glabra (Michx.) A. Gray, Melica racemosa Muhl., Melica rariflora Schreb., Melica speciosa Muhl.] |
From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam This is a local grass in a few of the southern counties, where it is found on the rocky crests or slopes of black oak ridges, and is rarely associated with beech and sugar maple. I have seen this species a good many times but have found only a few tufts here and there and only a few culms to a tuft. Culms 5-10 dm; sheaths scabrous or pilose; lf-blades 3 or 4, flat, the upper 10-20 cm נ2-5 mm; infl 1-2 dm, with 1-few spreading lower branches to 8 cm; spikelets short-pedicellate, pendulous, 7-11 mm; glumes nearly equal, oblong, 6.5-9 mm, nearly or quite equaling the lemmas; fertile lemmas 2, strongly nerved, about even with each other at the blunt tips; sterile lemmas ca 2 mm, obconic or hooded, surpassed by the fertile ones; 2n=18. Woods and banks; Md. to Ind. and Ill., s. to Fla. and Tex.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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