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|accepted_name=Callisia graminea
|accepted_authority=(Small) G. C. Tucker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum
|place=70:118. 1989
|year=1989
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cuthbertia graminea
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|publication_place=237, 1328. 1903
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tradescantia rosea var. graminea
|authority=(Small) E. S. Anderson & Woodson
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Callisia;Callisia graminea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Commelinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Callisia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Callisia graminea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, erect to ascending. <b>Roots</b> glabrous to sparsely puberulent. <b>Stems</b> (4–)15–25(–40) cm. <b>Leaves</b> ascending; basal leaf sheaths glabrous to pilose or puberulent; blade linear, 4–17 × 0.1–0.5 mm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened). <b>Inflorescences</b>: bracts often elongate, sometimes minute, 2–14 mm, if elongate ± herbaceous, if minute scarious. <b>Flowers</b> pedicellate; pedicels (0.7–)1.2–2 cm; petals pink to rose, 8–10 mm; filaments bearded. <b>Capsules</b> 2–3.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 1.5–2 mm. n = 6, 12, 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandy soil in pine-oak woods (especially longleaf pine and turkey oak) and pine barrens, often on sandhills, occasionally in thickets, old fields and roadsides
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|discussion=<p>I have not been able to confirm the record of this species from Maryland in M. L. Brown and R. G. Brown (1984).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=giles1942a
|text=Giles, N. H. Jr. 1942. Autopolyploidy and geographical distribution in Cuthbertia graminea Small. Amer. J. Bot. 29: 637--645.
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name=Callisia graminea
|authority=(Small) G. C. Tucker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tradescantia rosea var. graminea
|basionyms=Cuthbertia graminea
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandy soil in pine-oak woods (especially longleaf pine and turkey oak) and pine barrens, often on sandhills, occasionally in thickets, old fields and roadsides
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=giles1942a
|publication title=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum
|publication year=1989
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Callisia
|species=Callisia graminea
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