View source for Schizachne purpurascens

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|accepted_name=Schizachne purpurascens
|accepted_authority=(Torr.) Swallen
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|common_names=False melic;Schizachne pourpre
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Schizachne purpurascens var. pubescens
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|rank=variety
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Meliceae;Schizachne;Schizachne purpurascens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Meliceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Schizachne]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Schizachne purpurascens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 103
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>(30)50-80(110) cm, sometimes slightly decumbent at the base, otherwise erect. <b>Ligules</b> 0.5-1.5 mm; blades 2-4(5) mm wide, glabrous or adaxial surfaces pilose. <b>Panicles</b> 7-13(17) cm, open or closed, often reduced to racemes in depauperate plants. <b>Spikelets</b> 11.5-17 mm. <b>Glumes</b> glabrous, acute; lower glumes 4.2-6.2 mm, faintly (1)3-5-veined; upper glumes 6-9 mm, faintly (3)5-veined; lemmas 8-10.5(12) mm; awns 8-15 mm, as long as or longer than the lemma bodies, somewhat twisted and divergent or slightly geniculate; anthers 1.4-2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;Vt.;Wis.;W.Va.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Pa.;R.I.;Va.;Colo.;Alaska;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;N.Dak.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Md.;Ohio;Utah;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Ky.
|discussion=<p>In North America, <i>Schizachne purpurascens</i> grows in moist to mesic woods, from south of the tree line in Alaska and northern Canada through the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico in the west, and to Kentucky and Maryland in the east.</p>
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name=Schizachne purpurascens
|authority=(Torr.) Swallen
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Schizachne purpurascens var. pubescens
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Conn.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;Vt.;Wis.;W.Va.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Pa.;R.I.;Va.;Colo.;Alaska;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;N.Dak.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Md.;Ohio;Utah;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Meliceae
|genus=Schizachne
|species=Schizachne purpurascens
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