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Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Aristida lanosa - Polypremum procumbens Herbaceous Vegetation | Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
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Name: Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Aristida lanosa - Polypremum procumbens Herbaceous Vegetation
Reference: Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
Description: This bluestem sand prairie is found in the United States in the Mississippi Embayment of Missouri and sand barrens in southwestern Indiana. Stands occur on nearly level to steeply sloped elevated terraces, knolls, ridges, and natural levees. The parent material is eolian or alluvial sand, associated with the Bulltown Soil Series. This tallgrass or midgrass prairie is composed of a single layer of dominant graminoids intermixed with abundant forbs. The herbaceous layer is dominated by Schizachyrium scoparium and Sorghastrum nutans. Other species can include Lithospermum canescens, Cyperus spp. (including Cyperus grayoides), Polypremum procumbens, Desmodium strictum, Digitaria cognata var. cognata, Aristida spp., and Callirhoe triangulata. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.23184.SCHIZACHYRIUMSC
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Little Bluestem - Yellow Indiangrass - Woolly Three-awn - Juniper-leaf Herbaceous Vegetation
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687227 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL002397
  Scientific: Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Aristida lanosa - Polypremum procumbens Herbaceous Vegetation
  Common: Mississippi Embayment Sand Prairie
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Aristida lanosa - Polypremum procumbens Herbaceous Vegetation