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Sphenopholis
Family: Poaceae
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Russ Kleinman, Richard Felger, Angela Flanders, Elroy Limmer  
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Spikelets strongly compressed, mostly 2-fld, disarticulating below the glumes and between the lemmas; rachilla prolonged behind the upper palea, seldom bearing a third floret; glumes keeled, dissimilar, the first 1(3)-veined, linear or rather narrowly oblong, usually distinctly shorter than the firmer, much wider, 3(5)-veined, scarious-margined second one, which nearly equals the first lemma; lemmas firm, slender, rounded on the back or keeled distally, obscurely veined, awnless or (especially the upper one) with a straight or bent, subterminal awn; palea hyaline, nearly equaling the lemma; seeds with minute embryo and liquid endosperm; ligule membranous; annual or more often perennial, with tufted or solitary stems, not rhizomatous, and with shining, often slender and spike-like panicles. 4, N. Amer.

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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Species within inventory project:
Sphenopholis filiformis
Image of Sphenopholis filiformis
Sphenopholis intermedia
Image of Sphenopholis intermedia
Sphenopholis interrupta
Image of Sphenopholis interrupta
Sphenopholis longiflora
Image of Sphenopholis longiflora
Sphenopholis nitida
Image of Sphenopholis nitida
Sphenopholis obtusata
Image of Sphenopholis obtusata
Sphenopholis pallens
Image of Sphenopholis pallens
Sphenopholis pensylvanica
Image of Sphenopholis pensylvanica
Sphenopholis x pallens
Image of Sphenopholis x pallens
The National Science Foundation
Developments of SEINet, Symbiota, and associated specimen databases have been supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)