Anatherum capillipes (Nash) Vorontsova & E.A. Kellogg. Common name: Dryland White Bluestem. Phenology: Sep-Nov. Habitat: Dry to mesic pine flatwoods, sandhills, adjacent roadbanks. Distribution: Se. NC south to s. FL and west to s. AL.

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: See A. dealbatus for discussion of these two taxa. The type of A. capillipes (collected by A.H. Curtiss in FL) is of this taxon; Nash (1900) states that it occurs "in dry soil, North Carolina to Florida" and emphasizes that it is "abundantly distinct from A. virginicus, to which it is related".

Synonymy ⓘ: = Vorontsova et al (2023); = Andropogon capillipes Nash — FlGr, HC, POWO, Weakley et al (2011), Weakley et al (2018a); = Andropogon virginicus L. var. glaucus Hack. — NS; = Andropogon virginicus L. var. glaucus "drylands variant" — Campbell (1983); < Andropogon capillipes Nash — GW1, S, S13; < Andropogon dealbatus (C.Mohr) Weakley & LeBlond — K4; < Andropogon virginicus L. — RAB; < Andropogon virginicus L. var. glaucus Hack. — FNA25, WH3; Andropogon capillipes Nash. Basionym: Andropogon capillipes Nash 1900

Links to other floras: < Andropogon virginicus var. glaucus - FNA25

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Wetland Indicator Status:

• Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
• Great Plains: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
• Midwest: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
• Northcentral & Northeast: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 9