Erioneuron
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Erioneuron is a genus of grasses
sometimes called by the common name woollygrass. There are only three to five species, all of which are native to South and Central America and the southern half of North America. These are tufty grasses with hairy spikelets
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Species include:
Poaceae
The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
sometimes called by the common name woollygrass. There are only three to five species, all of which are native to South and Central America and the southern half of North America. These are tufty grasses with hairy spikelets
Raceme
A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne...
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Species include:
- Erioneuron avenaceum - shortleaf woollygrass, large-flowered tridens
- Erioneuron nealleyi - Nealley's woollygrass
- Erioneuron pilosum - hairy woollygrass
- Erioneuron pulchellum syn. Tridens pulchellum - fluff grass