Flora of the Southeastern United States

Schizachyrium stoloniferum Nash. Common name: Creeping Bluestem. Phenology: Aug-Oct. Habitat: Fall-line sandhills 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 seeps and other seepage slopes), and wet to mesic savannas, as well as upslope into scrubby flatwoods. Distribution: South Carolina and Georgia south to s. Florida and west to s. Mississippi.

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: See Wipff (1996a) for additional discussion.

Synonymy ⓘ: = GW1, S13; = Andropogon stolonifer (Nash) Hitchc. — HC, POWO, S; = Andropogon stoloniferum (Nash) Hitchc., orthographic variant; = Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash var. stoloniferum (Nash) Wipff — FlGr, FNA25, K1, K4, WH3, Wipff (1996a); < Andropogon scoparius Michx. — RAB; < Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash ssp. littorale (Nash) Gandhi & Smeins — Gandhi (1989); > Schizachyrium stoloniferum Nash var. stoloniferum — NS; > stoloniferum var. — NS. Basionym: Schizachyrium stoloniferum Nash 1903

Links to other floras: = Schizachyrium scoparium var. stoloniferum - FNA25

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