Digital Herbaria

Specimen & Label Data

Arundo donax

Giantreed

Poaceae

Location: W side of Holbrook Rd, 50 m S of Austin Hwy,halfway from pavement to Salado Creek, San Antonio.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Very broad colony. Level, dry, alluvial soil. Full sun.

Description: Erect, shrub-like, aerial culms to 6 m tall, 3+ cm thick, from thick & short rhizomes; rarely freezing back in this community. Infloresence a thick, ellipsoid, buffy-white panicle to 5 dm tall. Spike;ets to 15 mm long. Blades 3-6 dm long, 2-5 cm broad.

County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Aug 29, 1994
Specimen number: 661

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0945
Accession Date: Oct 27, 1994
Accession Number: 73

Annotations: SCXFB (In flower & fruit)