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Sorghastrum nutans (yellow indian-grass; Indiangrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sorghastrum nutans, commonly known as either Indiangrass or yellow Indiangrass, is a North American prairie grass found in the central and eastern United States and Canada, especially in the Great Plains and tallgrass prairies.
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Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  Medium
Fire Tolerance [1]  High
Frost Free Days [1]  4 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Fall
Growth Form [1]  Bunch
Growth Period [1]  Summer, Fall
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [1]  Moderate
Root Depth [1]  24 inches (61 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Slow
Seed Vigor [1]  Medium
Seeds Per [1]  174720 / lb (385191 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Structure [2]  Grass
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Height [1]  5.904 feet (1.8 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Infertile
Water Use [1]  Moderate
Screening - Summer [1]  Dense
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous

Protected Areas

Emblem of

Oklahoma
South Carolina

Predators

Ammodramus leconteii (Le Conte's Sparrow)[3]
Antonina graminis (felted grass coccid)[4]
Melanaspis smilacis (Smilax scale)[4]
Reithrodontomys fulvescens (fulvous harvest mouse)[5]
Reithrodontomys montanus (plains harvest mouse)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

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.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Food Habits of Peromyscus and Reithrodontomys in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, Anthony J. Stancampiano and William Caire, Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 75: 45-49 (1995)
♦ 6Reithrodontomys montanus, Kenneth T. Wilkins, Mammalian Species No. 257, pp. 1-5 (1986)
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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