Schizachyrium stoloniferum Nash. Common name: Creeping Bluestem. Phenology: Aug-Oct. Habitat: Fall-line sandhill in the inner Coastal Plain, further southward into peninsular FL this species occurs in a wide variety of soils, often in pineland seepages (including cutthroat seep and other seepage slopes), and wet to mesic savanna, as well as upslope into scrubby flatwoods. Distribution: SC and GA south to s. FL and west to s. MS.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Other Comments: See Wipff (1996a) for additional discussion.
Synonymy ⓘ: = GW1, S13; = Andropogon stolonifer (Nash) Hitchc. — HC, S; = Andropogon stoloniferum (Nash) Hitchc., orthographic variant; = Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash var. stoloniferum (Nash) Wipff — FlGr, FNA25, K4, WH3, Wipff (1996a); < Andropogon scoparius Michx. — RAB; < Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash ssp. littorale (Nash) Gandhi & Smeins — Gandhi (1989). Basionym: Schizachyrium stoloniferum Nash 1903
Links to other floras: = Schizachyrium scoparium var. stoloniferum - FNA25
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Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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