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MatBio: COASTAL and ESTUARINE PLANTS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Bushy Bluestem 1
Andropogon glomeratus
Purple Sandgrass 2
Triplasis purpurea
Little Bluestem 3
Schizachyrium scoparium scoparium
Seaoats 4
Uniola paniculata
Pinewoods Fingergrass 5
Eustachys petraea
Smooth Cordgrass 6
Spartina alterniflora
Marshhay Cordgrass 7
Spartina patens
Seashore Dropseed; Virginia Dropseed 8
Sporobolus virginicus
Thalia Lovegrass 9
Eragrostis atrovirens
Red Lovegrass 10
Eragrostis secundiflora
Saltgrass 11
Distichlis spicata var. spicata
Muhly grass 12
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Bitter Panicgrass 13
Panicum amarum
Switchgrass 14
Panicum virgatum
Seashore Paspalum 5
Paspalum vaginatum
Hairy Bluestem 13
Andropogon longiberbis
Pitted Beardgrass 15
Bothriochloa pertusa
Southern Sandbur 16
Cenchrus echinatus
Coastal Sandbur 17
Cenchrus spinifex
Sanddune Sandbur 18
Cenchrus tribuloides
Crowsfoot Grass 19
Dactyloctenium aegypticum
Rose Natalgrass 20
Melinis repens

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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