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|accepted_name=Aristida lanosa
|accepted_authority=Muhl. ex Elliott
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|common_names=Wooly threeawn
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae;Poaceae tribe Aristideae;Aristida;Aristida lanosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Aristideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aristida]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Aristida lanosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 338
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; loosely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 65-150 cm, sometimes thickened at the base, erect, unbranched; internodes glabrous; nodes concealed. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths longer than the internodes, usually lanose-floccose, occasionally glabrate; ligules about 0.1 mm; blades 10-25(30) cm long, 2-6 mm wide, flat, light green or slightly blue-green, glabrous abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate, (25)35-70(82) cm long, (2)3-8(10) cm wide; rachis nodes lanose-floccose; primary branches 3-12 cm, appressed at the base, without axillary pulvini, ascending to spreading distally, sometimes loose and somewhat flexible, with 4-12 spikelets per branch. <b>Glumes</b> usually unequal, 1-veined, brownish-green to dark brown or purplish; lower glumes 8.7-18 mm, with a keeled mid-vein; upper glumes 8.4-15 mm, awn-tipped, awns to 3 mm; calluses 0.5-1 mm; lemmas 6.5-10 mm, smooth to scabridulous, mostly dark purplish-mottled, slightly narrowed distally but not beaked, junction with the awns not evident; central awns 12-28 mm, curved at the base, often strongly so; lateral awns 7-17 mm, at least Yi as long as the central awns; anthers 3, about 3 mm, brown. <b>Caryopses</b> 5-6 mm, chestnut brown. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;W.Va.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Aristida lanosa</i> is restricted to the eastern United States, where it grows in dry fields, pine-oak woods, and uplands, chiefly in sandy soil. It is sometimes confused with <i>A. palustris</i>, but differs in several reproductive, vegetative, and habitat characteristics.</p>
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name=Aristida lanosa
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|authority=Muhl. ex Elliott
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;W.Va.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Fla.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Aristideae
|genus=Aristida
|species=Aristida lanosa
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