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Bothriochloa glabra (tangelhead; tanglehead)

Synonyms: Amphilophis glabra (homotypic); Anatherum glabrum (homotypic); Andropogon glaber (heterotypic); Bothriochloa bladhii glabra (homotypic); Dichanthium glabrum (homotypic)

Invasive Species

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Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Early Summer
Drought Tolerance [1]  High
Fire Tolerance [1]  High
Frost Free Days [1]  7 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  Low
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Fall
Growth Form [1]  Bunch
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [1]  Slow
Root Depth [1]  10 inches (25 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Slow
Seed Vigor [1]  Medium
Seeds Per [1]  629999 / lb (1388911 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Structure [2]  Grass
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  None
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Height [1]  8 inches (0.2 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Infertile
Water Use [1]  Low
Screening - Summer [1]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous

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External References

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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
♦ 3FEEDING BEHAVIOUR OF CAMEL REVIEW, Arshad Iqbal & Bakht Baidar Khan, Pak. J. Agri. Sei. Vol. 38 (3-4), 2001, p. 58-63
♦ 4Chaetodipus penicillatus, Stacy J. Mantooth and Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 767, pp. 1–7 (2005)
♦ 5The diet of the brush-tailed rabbit-rat (Conilurus penicillatus) from the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory, Australia, Ronald S. C. Firth, Elizabeth Jefferys, John C. Z. Woinarski and Richard A. Noske, Wildlife Research, 2005, 32, 517–523
♦ 6Seasonal variation in the diets of Bohor reedbuck, waterbuck and wildebeest in a moist dystrophic savanna in Tanzania, Stephanie Halsdorf, Bettina Gutbrodt, Harry Olde Venterink, Werner Suter, Peter J. Edwards, Doctoral Dissertation, ETH ZURICH, 2011
♦ 7Equus zebra, B. L. Penzhorn, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 314, pp. 1-7 (1988)
♦ 8C. R. Field (1970) A Study of the Feeding Habits of the Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius Linn.) in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, With Some Management Implications, Zoologica Africana, 5:1, 71-86,
♦ 9Food preferences of oribi Ourebia ourebi in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, B.K. REILLY, G.K. THERON and J. DU P. BOTHMA, Koedoe 33(1): 55-61 (1990)
♦ 10Forage selection by African buffalo in the late dry season in two landscapes, Valerio A. Macandza, Norman Owen-Smith & Paul C. Cross, South African Journal of Wildlife Research 34(2): 113–121 (October 2004)
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