MatBio: GRASSES, SEDGES & RUSHES - 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 ↓

Shortspike Bluestem 1
Andropogon brachystachyus
Florida Bluestem 1
Andropogon floridanus
Purple Bluestem 2
Andropogon glomeratus glaucopsis
Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus var. hirsutior
Andropogon glomeratus var. pumilus 2
Andropogon glomeratus pumilus
Elliott's Bluestem 3
Andropogon gyrans gyrans
Hairy Bluestem 1
Andropogon longiberbis
Splitbeard Bluestem 4
Andropogon ternarius
Chalky Bluestem 1
Andropogon virginicus glaucus
Broonsedge Bluestem 5
Andropogon virginicus
Little Bluestem 3
Schizachyrium scoparium scoparium
Bushy Bluestem 6
Andropogon glomeratus

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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  • 1. (c) licensed media from USDA PLANTS images without owner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 2. (c) Ingrid P. Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. USDA NRCS PLANTS Database, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 4. (c) "Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc.", some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 5. (c) James Shelton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by James Shelton
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