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| Photos
by Renee Brecht |
Britton and Brown. See
credits below.** |
| Botanical name: |
Calamovilfa brevipilis (Torr.) Scribn. |
| Common
name: |
pine barrens reedgrass |
| Synonomy: |
Calamovilfa brevipilis (Torr.) Scribn. var. calvipes Fernald
Calamovilfa brevipilis (Torr.) Scribn. var. heterolepis Fernald |
| Group: |
monocot |
| Family: |
Poaceae |
| Growth
Type: |
graminoid |
| Duration: |
perennial |
| Origin: |
native |
| Plant
height: |
culms 6-12 dm high; |
| Foliage: |
basal sheets keeled; blades long, linear, nearly flat or involute |
| Flowers: | spikelets 1 flowered, awnless; panicle purplish |
| Flowering/fruiting time |
blooms/fruits early July-late September |
| Habitat: |
sandy, shaded bogs, swamps, stream banks, common in cranberry bogs |
| Range
in
New Jersey: |
throughout the Pine Barrens |
| Heritage ranking if any: |
LP |
| Distribution: |
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| Misc.: |
Note the hard "knuckle" in the top left photograph that is characteristic of this species.
Witmer
Stone, in 1910, describes this as one of the "characteristic grasses of
the Pine Barrens. In general appearance it strikingly recalls Tridens flavus" (228).
Calamos, Greek, a reed; and Vilfa, a name applied by Adanson to a genus of grasses; brevipilis, with short hairs (on the calyx) |
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Sources
**USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 213. |
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