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Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Herbaceous Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Herbaceous Vegetation
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This tallgrass community of the Crosstimbers/Southern Tallgrass is dominated by Tripsacum dactyloides and Panicum virgatum occurring with Sorghastrum nutans, Carex microdonta, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sporobolus compositus, Paspalum floridanum, and Andropogon gerardii. Important forbs include Symphyotrichum ericoides (= Aster ericoides), Acacia angustissima var. hirta, Rudbeckia hirta, and Helianthus maximiliani. This community occurs on poorly drained or subirrigated soils and flat topography on the Blackland and Fayette prairie regions of Texas. Similar communities may exist as small patches in Oklahoma and Kansas. Gilgai microtopography, with circular depressions and ridges, is characteristic of this community where it occurs over Vertisols. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.18482.TRIPSACUMDACTYL
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Jan-1994 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Eastern Gammagrass - Switchgrass - Yellow Indiangrass - Michaelmas-daisy Herbaceous Vegetation
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.683280 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Scientific: Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Herbaceous Vegetation
  Common: Gammagrass - Switchgrass Tallgrass Prairie
  Code: CEGL002217
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Herbaceous Vegetation