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 ↓

Toothachegrass ¹
Ctenium aromaticum

Florida Toothachegrass ²
Ctenium floridanum

Bermudagrass ³
Cynodon dactylon

Durban Crowfootgrass ⁴
Dactyloctenium aegyptium

Saltgrass ⁵
Distichlis spicata

Indian Goosegrass ⁶
Eleusine indica

Saltmarsh Fingergrass ⁶
Eustachys glauca

Pinewoods Fingergrass ⁶
Eustachys petraea

Chapman's Skeletongrass ²
Gymnopogon chapmanianus

Bearded Sprangletop ⁷
Leptochloa fusca fascicularis

Mexican Sprangletop ⁸
Leptochloa fusca uninervia

Gulf Hairawn Muhly ⁹
Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes

Nimblewill Muhly ¹⁰
Muhlenbergia schreberi

Pinebarren Fluffgrass ²
Tridens ambiguus

Purpletop Tridens ¹¹
Tridens flavus flavus

Purple Sandgrass ²
Triplasis purpurea

Muhly Grass ¹²
Muhlenbergia capillaris

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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MatBio: GRASSES, SEDGES & RUSHES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Toothachegrass 1 Ctenium aromaticum

Florida Toothachegrass 2 Ctenium floridanum

Bermudagrass 3 Cynodon dactylon

Durban Crowfootgrass 4 Dactyloctenium aegyptium

Saltgrass 5 Distichlis spicata

Indian Goosegrass 6 Eleusine indica

Saltmarsh Fingergrass 6 Eustachys glauca

Pinewoods Fingergrass 6 Eustachys petraea

Chapman's Skeletongrass 2 Gymnopogon chapmanianus

Bearded Sprangletop 7 Leptochloa fusca fascicularis

Mexican Sprangletop 8 Leptochloa fusca uninervia

Gulf Hairawn Muhly 9 Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes

Nimblewill Muhly 10 Muhlenbergia schreberi

Pinebarren Fluffgrass 2 Tridens ambiguus

Purpletop Tridens 11 Tridens flavus flavus

Purple Sandgrass 2 Triplasis purpurea

Muhly Grass 12 Muhlenbergia capillaris