Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana
Bothriochloa laguroides (DC.) Herter ssp. torreyana (Steud.) Allred & Gould
Silver Bluestem, Silver Beardgrass, Silver Beard Grass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: BOLATUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana
Silver Bluestem
Poaceae
Location: N side of Canyon Lake at 880 Military Drive on Canyon Lake Island.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: On dry roadsides and hillsides.
Description: Perennial 50-80 cm tall in clumps. Leaves, stems and spikelets hairless with a whitish, waxy coating. Primary infloresence branches rebranched (panicle); glumes small, reduced floret below first glume large. Infloresence contracted, short.
County: Comal
Collector: Mary Beth White
Collection Date: May 29, 1994
Specimen number: 200
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0804
Accession Date: Jun 28, 1994
Accession Number: 60
Annotations: SXFRC (In fruit)