View source for Eragrostis frankii

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|accepted_name=Eragrostis frankii
|accepted_authority=C.A. Mey. ex Steud.
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|common_names=Sandbar lovegrass;Éragrostide de frank
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eragrostis frankii var. brevipes
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|rank=variety
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Eragrostis;Eragrostis frankii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eragrostis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eragrostis frankii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 79
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; cespitose, without innovations. <b>Culms</b> 10-50 cm, erect to geniculate, glabrous, often with glandular pits below the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> mostly glabrous, apices hirsute, hairs to 4 mm, often also with glandular pits; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, ciliate; blades (2)4-10(21) cm long, 1-4 mm wide, flat to involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridu-lous adaxially. <b>Panicles</b> 4-20 cm long, less than 1/2 the height of the plants, 2-10(14) cm wide, narrowly elliptic, open; primary branches 2-6 cm, compact, diverging 20-70° from the rachises, capillary, sometimes with glan¬dular pits, naked basally; pulvini glabrous; pedicels 1.5-5 mm, divergent. <b>Spikelets</b> (1.7)2-4(5.6) mm long, 1-2(2.5) mm wide, broadly ovate to lanceolate, plumbeous to reddish-purple, with 3-6 florets; disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent. <b>Glumes</b> narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, hyaline; lower glumes 1-1.5 mm; upper glumes 1-1.8 mm; lemmas 1.1-1.6 mm, broadly ovate, membranous, lateral veins inconspicuous, apices acute; paleas 1-1.5 mm, hyaline, keels scabridulous, apices obtuse; anthers 2 or 3, 0.2-0.3 mm, purplish. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.4-0.7 mm, ovoid to rectangular-prismatic, striate, reddish-brown, adaxial surfaces flat or shallowly grooved, distal 2/3 opaque. <b>2n</b> = 40, 80.</span><!--

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|distribution=W.Va.;Conn.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.;D.C.;Wis.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Fla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;N.J.;N.C.;Nebr.;Tenn.;Pa.;Va.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;S.C.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Eragrostis frankii</i> is native in the central and eastern United States, but it has been found, as an introduction, in southern Ontario, and appears to be increasingly common in the northeastern United States. It grows in moist meadows, along streams and sand bars, in forest openings, and along roadsides, at 5-1500 m, usually in association with <i>Pinus</i>, <i>Quercus</i>, Acer, and <i>Fagus</i> grandiflora. The record from Santa Fe County, New Mexico, is based on a specimen collected by Fendler in 1847; there are no other collections from the state. Fendler's specimens seem to represent either an accidental introduction that did not become established or a labeling error.</p><!--
--><p><i>Eragrostis frankii</i> is similar to <i>E. capillaris</i>, but differs in its frequent possession of glandular pits, its flat or more shallowly grooved caryopses, shorter pedicels, and glabrous sheath margins, and in having panicles that are usually less than half as long as the culms.</p>
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name=Eragrostis frankii
|authority=C.A. Mey. ex Steud.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Eragrostis frankii var. brevipes
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=W.Va.;Conn.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.;D.C.;Wis.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Fla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;N.J.;N.C.;Nebr.;Tenn.;Pa.;Va.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;S.C.;Ky.
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|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Eragrostis
|species=Eragrostis frankii
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