Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Steinchisma hians
Steinchisma hians (Elliott) Nash
Gaping Grass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: STHI3USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Panicum hians
Nimble-Will, Satin Grass
Poaceae
Location: W side of Holbrook Rd, in broad drain into Salado Creek, 200 m N of Rittiman Rd, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: In damp soil, often inundated, beside slow flowing, fresh water drain. Full sun.
Description: Perennial w/slender, lax, much branched culms to 40+ cm tall. Sheaths shorter than internodes. Ligules minute. Blades thin, flat, glabrous, 3-8 cm long, 1-4 mm wide. Glumes rounded, scabrous, often erose at apex. Lemmas 2-2.5 mm long w/awn 1.5-5 mm long.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Aug 5, 1994
Specimen number: 659
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0943
Accession Date: Oct 37, 1994
Accession Number: 73
Annotations: SXFRB (In fruit)
Panium hians Ell.
det. Floyd R. Waller 1995
Label: Muhlenbergia schreberi