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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Microstegium vimineum
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    CYPERALES
 FAMILY:   POACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Microstegium vimineum
 AUTHORITY:  (Trin.) A. Camus
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    EULALIA
 
 SYNONOMY:
     Eulalia viminea
 
 PLANTS CODE: EUVI3
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     CULTURAL
       SUCCESSIONAL FIELD
       DEVELOPED LAND
       PLANTATION
       RESTORATION
       MINED LAND
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   MASSAC          POPE
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Parallel
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear
    INFLORESCENCE:   Panicle
    FLOWER MEROUS:  3
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Grain
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     This is a weak, decumbent annual; second glume is conspicuously
     ciliate on the keel; fertile lemma awnless; uniform paired
     spikelets in which one is sessile and one is pedicellate.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Introduced-  Asia
 
 GEOGRAPHIC COMMENTS:
     Species is adventive in a few eastern states; is found along Ohio
     River in Pope and Massac counties in southern Illinois.
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Rare
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Grasslike
     LIFE CYCLE:   Annual
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C4
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is adventive in waste ground.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
 
 OTHER REFERENCES:
     Barden, L. S.  1987.  Invasion of Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae) , an
          exotic, annual, shade-tolerant, C4 grass, into a North Carolina
          floodplain.  American Midland Naturalist 118: 40-45.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Microstegium vimineum
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015