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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Agrostis elliottiana
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    CYPERALES
 FAMILY:   POACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Agrostis elliottiana
 AUTHORITY:  Schult.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    AWNED BENT GRASS
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: AGEL4
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         XERIC
         DRY
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         DRY
       SAND PRAIRIE
         DRY
       GRAVEL PRAIRIE
         DRY
       HILL PRAIRIE
     PRIMARY
       GLADE
         SANDSTONE
       BLUFF
     CULTURAL
       SUCCESSIONAL FIELD
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   COLES           CUMBERLAND      EDWARDS         FRANKLIN        HARDIN
   JACKSON         JEFFERSON       JOHNSON         MARION          MASSAC
   MONTGOMERY      POPE            RANDOLPH        ST. CLAIR       SALINE
   UNION
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (rhizomes)
    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 delicate, caespilose annual, except for A. scabra var.
     tuckermanii, only Illinois Agrostis with an awned lemma.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 GEOGRAPHIC COMMENTS:
     Species is restricted to southern half of Illinois; most
     abundant along the Shawneetown Ridge.
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Uncommon
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Grasslike
     LIFE CYCLE:   Annual
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      5         MONTH END-      7
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed on sterile acid soils exposed to
     the sun; often on chert, on granite, sterile fields, open
     sandy and cherty soils; sometimes along leached or eroded slopes.
 
 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:
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Agrostis elliottiana
 
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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