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|accepted_name=Tridens strictus
|accepted_authority=(Nutt.) Nash
|publications=
|common_names=Longspike tridens
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Tridens;Tridens strictus
|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>[[Tridens]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tridens strictus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 34
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with hard, knotty, shortly rhizomatous bases. <b>Culms</b> 50-170 cm, stiffly erect. <b>Sheaths</b> rounded, glabrous except for a few hairs on either side of the collar; ligules about 0.5 mm, membranous, ciliate; blades 2-8 mm wide, flat or loosely infolded, glabrous, tapering to the apices. <b>Panicles</b> 10-30(36) cm long, 1-2 cm wide; branches to 6 cm, erect or appressed; pedicels 1-1.5 mm, glabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> 4-7 mm, with 5-11 florets. <b>Glumes</b> 4-7 mm, always conspicuously exceed¬ing and often twice as long as the adjacent lemmas, usually equaling or exceeding the distal florets, glabrous, 1-veined, tapering to acuminate apices; calluses pilose; lemmas (2)3-3.5 mm, veins pilose to well above midlength, lateral veins often excurrent; paleas 2-3 mm, bases not bowed-out; anthers 1-1.5 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1-1.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Pa.;Kans.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|discussion=<p>Tridens strictus grows in open woods, old fields, right of ways, and coastal grasslands. It is endemic to the United States.</p>
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name=Tridens strictus
|author=
|authority=(Nutt.) Nash
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|parent rank=genus
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|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Pa.;Kans.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Tridens
|species=Tridens strictus
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