Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Melica nitens
Melica nitens (Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper
Three-flower Melic, Tall Melicgrass, Threeflower Melicgrass, Melicgrass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: MENIUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Melica nitens
Three-flowered Melic
Poaceae
Location: 14511 Star Cross Trail, Helotes, TXLatitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Under Juniperus ashei at edge of woods. Good morning sun. Soil rocky, but with good humus and dirt.
Description: Stems mostly 100 cm long,but plant slumps over. Sheaths hairless, or nearly so. Infloresence an open panicle, 10-26 cm long. Spikelets 8-15 mm long, with 1-4 seed bearing florets. Tip of second floret exceeds the tip of the first.
County: Bexar
Collector: Mike Fox
Collection Date: Apr 29, 1995
Specimen number: 156
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 1020
Accession Date: May 23, 1995
Accession Number: 82
Annotations: SXFRB (In fruit)