Taxon: Andropogon virginicus L.
Genus: Andropogon
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 3355
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1046. 1753 "virginicum"
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 06-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 25-Feb-2002
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9). Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
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HI*°.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:
- broom-sedge (Source: Glea Cron ed2
) – English
- broom-sedge bluestem (Source: Grass Tex
) – English
- chalky bluestem (Source: F Florida
) – English [Andropogon virginicus var. glaucus]
- whiskey grass (Source: Weed CIBA
) – English
- andropogon (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.] Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan [s.], New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Iowa [s.e.], Kansas [e.], Missouri, Oklahoma [e.] Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila, Nuevo Leon Central Mexico: Mexico - Puebla, Veracruz
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatan; Nicaragua; Panama Caribbean: Bahamas; Bermuda; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago Western South America: Colombia
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, w. United States, & Hawaii
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
- Campbell, C. S.
1983. Systematics of the Andropogon virginicus complex (Gramineae).
J. Arnold Arbor.
64:224.
- Conant, P. et al.
1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
- Davidse, G. et al., eds.
1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist.
1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
- Gould, F. W.
1975. The grasses of Texas. (Grass Tex)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association).
1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. (Atlas GPlains)
- McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association).
1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
- Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A.
1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16. (Grass Util Mex)
- Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- More:
Check other databases for Andropogon virginicus L.:
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
- Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
- World Grass Species-Descriptions:
Morphological species description from Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?3355 (09 February 2010)
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