Name:
CEGL004211
Reference:
UNKNOWN
Description:
This association is described from the least disturbed grasslands present at Fort Hood, Texas. Most occurrences are dominated by Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem) in a mixture with other grasses, including Sporobolus compositus (composite dropseed), Sorghastrum nutans (Indiangrass), Bouteloua hirsuta (hairy grama), Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama), Aristida purpurea (purple threeawn), Muhlenbergia reverchonii (seep muhly), and Bothriochloa laguroides (silver beardgrass). This association can have a strong component of showy wildfowers, including Liatris mucronata (cusp blazing star), Calylophus berlandieri (Berlandier's sundrops), Melampodium leucanthum (plains blackfoot), Helianthus maximiliani (Maximilian sunflower), Oenothera macrocarpa (bigfruit evening-primrose), Silphium albiflorum (white rosinweed), and Chamaecrista fasciculata (sleepingplant). Salvia texana (Texas sage) and Dalea multiflora (roundhead prairie clover) tend to be abundant in areas with thinner soils. Other characteristic components include Symphyotrichum ericoides, Hedyotis nigricans (diamondflowers), Scutellaria wrightii (Wright's skullcap), Thelesperma simplicifolium (slender greenthread), Stillingia texana (Texas toothleaf), Agalinis densiflora (Osage false foxglove), Desmanthus (bundleflower) spp., Mimosa roemeriana (Roemer's mimosa), Asclepias viridiflora (green comet milkweed), and Asclepias oenotheroides (zizotes milkweed). Occasional woody components include Yucca pallida (twistleaf yucca), Juniperus ashei (Ashe's juniper), Rhus lanceolata (prairie sumac), Toxicodendron radicans (eastern poison ivy), and Rubus trivialis (southern dewberry). Woody components increase in the absence of fire.
Accession Code:
VB.cc.29754.CEGL004211
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
16
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