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Aristida purpurea (purple three-awn; Purple 3-awn; purple threeawn; red threeawn)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Aristida purpurea is a species of grass native to North America which is known by the common name purple three-awn. This grass is fairly widespread and can be found across the western two thirds of the United States, much of southern Canada and parts of northern Mexico. It is most abundant on the plains.
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Infraspecies

Aristida purpurea var. stricta

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual/Perennial
Structure [2]  Grass

Protected Areas

Predators

Bos taurus (cow)[3]
Gnathamitermes tubiformans[4]
Perognathus merriami (Merriam's pocket mouse)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4SEASONAL FOOD HABITS OF THE DESERT TERMITE GNATHAMITERMES TUBIFORMANS (BUCKLEY) ON A SHORTGRASS PRAIRIE IN WEST TEXAS, CHARLES T. ALLEN, A THESIS IN ENTOMOLOGY Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE (1997)
♦ 5Perognathus merriami, Troy L. Best and Marian P. Skupski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 473, pp. 1-7 (1994)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0