Wiregrass
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The name wiregrass may refer to:
- PoaceaePoaceaeThe 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...
grasses- Aristida (three-awns), especially A. strictaAristida strictaAristida stricta is a warm-season grass, native to North America, that dominates understory vegetation in sandhills and flatwoods coastal plain ecosystems of the Southeastern United States...
(Pineland Three-awn), A. junciformis and A. purpurea longisetaAristida purpureaAristida purpurea is a species of grass native to North America which is known by the common name purple three-awn. This grass is fairly widespread and can be found across the western two thirds of the United States, much of southern Canada and parts of northern Mexico...
(Purple Three-awn), of subfamily Arundinoideae - Eleusine indicaEleusine indicaEleusine indica is an invasive species in the grass family Poaceae. It is a small annual weed distributed throughout the warmer areas of the world to about 50 degrees latitude...
(Indian Goosegrass) of subfamily Eragrostideae - Sporobolus indicusSporobolus indicusSporobolus indicus is a species of grass known by the common name smut grass.-Distribution:This bunchgrass is native to temperate and tropical areas of the Americas....
(Smutgrass) of subfamily Chloridoideae
- Aristida (three-awns), especially A. stricta
- Other plants
- Juncus tenuis (Slender Rush) of the rush family
- Polygonum arenastrumPolygonum arenastrumPolygonum arenastrum is a summer annual weed that is native to Europe and can be found on most continents as an introduced species and a common noxious weed...
(Common Knotweed) of the knotweed family
- Wiregrass RegionWiregrass RegionThe Wiregrass Region or Wiregrass Country is an area of the Southern United States encompassing parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle...
, an area of the Southern United StatesSouthern United StatesThe Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...
encompassing parts of southern GeorgiaGeorgia (U.S. state)Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
, southeastern AlabamaAlabamaAlabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
and the FloridaFloridaFlorida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
PanhandleFlorida PanhandleThe Florida Panhandle, an informal, unofficial term for the northwestern part of Florida, is a strip of land roughly 200 miles long and 50 to 100 miles wide , lying between Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia also on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Its eastern boundary is...
, and named for its abundance of A. stricta