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|accepted_name=Sporobolus cryptandrus
|accepted_authority=(Torr.) A. Gray
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|common_names=Sand dropseed;Sporobole a fleurs cachees
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|name=Sporobolus cryptandrus subsp. fuscicolus
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|rank=subspecies
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|name=Sporobolus cryptandrus var. fuscicolor
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Sporobolus;Sporobolus cryptandrus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sporobolus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sporobolus cryptandrus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 129
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous, bases not hard and knotty. <b>Culms</b> 30-100(120) cm tall, 1-3.5 mm thick, erect to decumbent. <b>Sheaths</b> rounded below, glabrous or scabridulous, margins sometimes ciliate distally, apices with conspicuous tufts of hairs, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.5-1 mm; blades (2)5-26 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, flat to involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous to scabrous adaxially, margins scabridulous; flag blades nearly perpendicular to the culms. <b>Panicles</b> 15-40 cm long, 2-12(14) cm wide, longer than wide, initially contracted and spikelike, ultimately open and narrowly pyramidal; rachises straight, erect; lower nodes with 1-2(3) branches; primary branches 0.6-6 cm, appressed, spreading, or reflexed to 130° from the rachis, without spikelets on the lower 1/8 – 1/4; lower branches longest, included in the uppermost sheath; secondary branches appressed; pulvini glabrous; pedicels 0.1-1.3 mm, appressed, glabrous or scabridulous. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.5-2.5(2.7) mm, brownish, plumbeous, or purplish-tinged. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, linear-lanceolate to ovate, membranous; lower glumes 0.6-1.1 mm; upper glumes 1.5-2.7 mm, at least 2/3 as long as the florets; lemmas 1.4-2.5(2.7) mm, ovate to lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, acute; paleas 1.2-2.4 mm, lanceolate, membranous; anthers 0.5-1 mm, yellowish to purplish. <b>Fruits</b> 0.7-1.1 mm, ellipsoid, light brownish to reddish-orange. <b>2n</b> = 36, 38, 72.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wash.;Wis.;W.Va.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Wyo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Conn.;N.Y.;N.C.;Tenn.;Pa.;R.I.;Nev.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Ark.;Vt.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Okla.;Ariz.;Idaho;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Maine;Mass.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;S.C.;Ky.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Sporobolus cryptandrus</i> is a widespread North American species, extending from Canada into Mexico. It grows in sandy soils and washes, on rocky slopes and calcareous ridges, and along roadsides in salt-desert scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands, yellow pine forests, and desert grasslands. Its elevational range is 0-2900 m.</p>
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name=Sporobolus cryptandrus
|authority=(Torr.) A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sporobolus cryptandrus subsp. fuscicolus;Sporobolus cryptandrus var. fuscicolor
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Wash.;Wis.;W.Va.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Wyo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Conn.;N.Y.;N.C.;Tenn.;Pa.;R.I.;Nev.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Ark.;Vt.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Okla.;Ariz.;Idaho;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Maine;Mass.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;S.C.;Ky.;Oreg.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Sporobolus
|species=Sporobolus cryptandrus
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