eric_hunt's Identifications

Semi-open (at time of collection on 10 October 2014) seepage wetland with sandy soil, at topographic break between two ancient river terraces. This area dominated by open pine savanna/woodland historically, and home to a good list of plants disjunct from the longleaf pine savannas of the outer Coastal Plain. Photos mounted on herbarium sheet from same population, taken 13 September 2007. Leaf sheaths and parts of stems covered with chalk-like powder that rubs off on your fingers. Specimens key to A. dealbatus in Weakley’s Flora of the Southeast U.S., 2023 web edition. Has been various called Andropogon virginicus var. glaucus, A. capillipes, and A. glaucopsis (now A. cretaceus) by botanists in Arkansas. See also https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72336265.