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Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Grassland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Grassland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This tallgrass community of the Crosstimbers/Southern Tallgrass is dominated by <i>Tripsacum dactyloides</i> and <i>Panicum virgatum</i> occurring with <i>Sorghastrum nutans, Carex microdonta, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sporobolus compositus, Paspalum floridanum</i>, and <i>Andropogon gerardii</i>. Important forbs include <i>Symphyotrichum ericoides, Acacia angustissima var. hirta, Rudbeckia hirta</i>, and <i>Helianthus maximiliani</i>. 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: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:31126-{1E7755C9-4DDE-4BC1-85BE-9F385ABA25B5}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 03-Jan-1994 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.683280 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL002217
  Translated: Eastern Gamagrass - Switchgrass - Indiangrass - Maximilian Sunflower Grassland
  Common: Gamagrass - Switchgrass Tallgrass Prairie
  Scientific: Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Grassland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL002217
(similar) Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Tripsacum dactyloides - Panicum virgatum - Sorghastrum nutans - Helianthus maximiliani Herbaceous Vegetation