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Bothriochloa barbinodis - Chloris pluriflora Herbaceous Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Bothriochloa barbinodis - Chloris pluriflora Herbaceous Vegetation
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This community, found in the southern Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes and Tamaulipan Thornscrub ecoregions, is a midgrass grassland dominated by Chloris pluriflora and Bothriochloa barbinodis. Other herbaceous species include Bouteloua spp., Setaria spp., Pappophorum bicolor, Buchloe dactyloides, Hilaria belangeri, Chloris crinita, and Heteropogon contortus. Most examples of this community type have become shrub-dominated due to lack of prescribed burning. This community naturally occurred as an open matrix of midgrass species within native mesquite - acacia shrublands dominated by Prosopis glandulosa, Acacia farnesiana, and Acacia rigidula. This community once occupied uplands in the South Texas Plains and ranged into Mexico. It has been virtually eliminated due to conversion to tame pasture or cropland, or due to lack of burning. The few remaining examples are in private ownership and are highly disturbed because of overgrazing and brush clearing. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.27774.BOTHRIOCHLOABAR
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Nov-1994 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Cane Beardgrass - False Rhodesgrass Herbaceous Vegetation
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689966 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Scientific: Bothriochloa barbinodis - Chloris pluriflora Herbaceous Vegetation
  Code: CEGL002236
  Common: Cane Bluestem - False Rhodesgrass Mixedgrass Prairie
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Bothriochloa barbinodis - Chloris pluriflora Herbaceous Vegetation