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Danthonia sericea Nuttall. Common name: Silky Oat-grass, Downy Danthonia. Phenology: Mar-Jun (-early Jul). Habitat: Dry woodlands, especially common in sandy soils in the Coastal Plain, dry oak, oak-pine, and pine forests in the Piedmont and low Mountains, and on dry acidic cliffs and rock outcrops, roadsides and woodland margins. Distribution: Primarily a Coastal Plain species northward, ranging from e. MA south to FL and west to LA. Reported for WV by Vanderhorst et al. (2013).

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Synonymy : = Ar, Can, ETx1, F, FlGr, HC, K4, NS, POWO, S, S13, Tat, Tx, Va, W, WH3; = Danthonia sericea Nutt. var. sericea — C, G, RAB; < Danthonia sericea Nutt. — FNA25, Tn; Danthonia sericea Nutt. — (basionym)

Links to other floras: < Danthonia sericea - FNA25

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACU

Heliophily : 7

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