Schizachyrium stoloniferum Nash. Creeping Bluestem. Phen: Aug-Oct. Hab: 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. Dist: 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, K1, K3, K4, WH3, Wipff (1996a); < Andropogon scoparius Michx. – RAB; < Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash ssp. littorale (Nash) Gandhi & Smeins – Gandhi (1989)

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