Grasses of the Texas Hill Country: A Field Guide

Index

Agrostis gigantea, 71 Andropogon gerardii, 39 glomeratus, 79 area of coverage, 3 Aristida oligantha, 121 purpurea, 123 Arundo donax, 81 Avena fatua, 125 Balcones Escarpment, 4 barnyardgrass, 139 bell grama, 55 bentgrass, water, 71 Berlandier, Jean Louis, 6 bermudagrass, 43 big bluestem, 39 big four grasses, 5, 35, 39, 111, 169 big muhly, 95 blue grama, 49 bluestem big, 39 bushy, 79 cane, 83 King Ranch, 85 KR, 85 little, 35 silky, 45 silver, 87 bluestem wheatgrass, 27 Bothriochloa barbinodis, 83 ischaemum var. songarica, 85 laguroides ssp. torreyana, 87 bottlegrass, 109 Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula, 47 gracilis, 49 hirsuta, 51 pectinata, 53 rigidiseta var. rigidiseta, 55 trifida, 57 bristlegrass green, 109 knotroot, 101 plains, 103 reverchon, 105 southwestern, 107 bristlejoint bluestem, 83 broad crabgrass, 77 broadleaf woodoats, 131 broad-winged skipper, 177 brome, Japaneese, 129 Bromus catharticus, 127 japonicus, 129 Index 190 index Buchloë dactyloides, 59 buffalograss, 59 bunchgrass skipper, 37, 39 bushy beardgrass, 79 bushy bluestem, 79 butterfly broad-winged skipper, 177 bunchgrass skipper, 37, 39 Carolina satyr, 43 Celia’s roadside skipper, 65 clouded skipper, 65 common wood nymph, 35, 39, 125, 177 cross-line skipper, 177 Delaware skipper, 39, 169 dusted skipper, 39 fiery skipper, 43 gemmed satyr, 43 golden skipper, 27 green skipper, 51 Julia’s skipper, 43, 63, 171 large wood nymph, 177 least skipper, 169 Leonard’s skipper, 35 little glassywing skipper, 125, 177 neamathla skipper, 63, 171 northern broken dash, 163, 169 obscure skipper, 43 orange roadside skipper, 51 sachem, 43 southern skipperling, 43 swarthy skipper, 35, 171 umber skipper, 43 whirlabout, 43 zabulon skipper, 23, 59 Canada wildrye, 23 canarygrass, Carolina, 99 cane beardgrass, 83 cane bluestem, 83 canyon muhly, 157 Carolina canarygrass, 99 Carolina satyr, 43 Celia’s roadside skipper, 65 Cenchrus spinifex, 89 Chasmanthium latifolium, 131 cheat, 129 Chloris cucullata, 73 subdolichostachya, 75 virgata, 41 chloris, showy, 41 clouded skipper, 65 cockspur, 139 Colorado grass, 119 common curly-mesquite, 29 common sandbur, 89 common witchgrass, 163 common wood nymph, 35, 39, 125, 177 covered-spike dropseed, 175 crabgrass, hairy, 77 creeping mesquite, 29 cross-line skipper, 177 cupgrass, Texas, 91 curlymesquite, 29 curly-mesquite, common, 29 Cynodon dactylon, 43 dallisgrass, 63 Delaware skipper, 39, 169 Dichanthelium index 191 acuminatum var. lindheimeri, 133 oligosanthes var. scribnerianum, 135 Dichanthium sericeum, 45 diffuse crabgrass, 137 Digitaria cognata, 137 sanguinalis, 77 dotted skipper, 47 dropseed sand, 175 tall, 113 meadow, 173 dusted skipper, 39 eastern gamagrass, 37 Echinochloa crusgalli, 139 Edwards Plateau, 3, 4 Elymus canadensis, 23 smithii, 27 virginicus, 25 English ryegrass, 31 Eragrostis barrelieri, 141 cilianensis, 143 curvula, 145 intermedia, 147 lugens, 149 secundiflora, 151 sessilispica, 153 superba, 33 trichodes, 155 Eriochloa sericea, 91 erioneuron, hairy, 93 Erioneuron pilosum, 93 fall witchgrass, 137 feather fingergrass, 41 feathertop rhodesgrass, 41 few-flowered aristida, 121 fibrous roots, 8 fiery skipper, 43 flaggrass, 113 foxtail, 107 gamagrass, eastern, 37 gemmed satyr, 43 giantreed, 81 golden skipper, 27 grama blue, 49 hairy, 51 red, 57 sideoats, 47 tall, 53 Texas, 55 graminaea, 6 grapevine-mesquite, 97 grass, big four, 5, 35, 39, 111, 169 grass, definition, 6 greasegrass, 177 green bristlegrass, 109 green foxtail grass, 109 green skipper, 47, 51 green sprangletop, 61 hairy crabgrass, 77 erioneuron, 93 flowered paspalum, 67 grama, 51 tridens, 93 hairyseed paspalum, 67 192 index Halls panicum, 167 Hilaria belangeri, 29 Hill Country of Texas, 3–6 hooded fingergrass, 73 hooded windmillgrass, 73 indiangrass, yellow, 111 indianreed, 111 inflorescence, 8–13 Japaneese brome, 129 Japanese chess, 129 johnsongrass, 171 Julia’s skipper, 43, 63, 171 King Ranch bluestem, 85 Kleingrass, 165 knotroot bristlegrass, 101 KR bluestem, 85 large crabgrass, 77 large wood nymph, 177 leaf, 8 least skipper, 169 Leonard’s skipper, 35 Leptochloa dubia, 61 ligule, 8 Lindheimer dichanthelium, 133 muhly, 95 panicum, 133 rosettegrass, 133 Lindheimer, Ferdinand, 6 little bluestem, 35 little glassywing skipper, 125, 177 Lolium perenne, 31 Long leaved rushgrass, 113 longtom, 65 lovegrass mediterranean, 141 mourning, 149 plains, 147 red, 151 sand, 155 tumble, 153 weeping, 145 Willmann, 33 meadow dropseed, 173 mediterranean lovegrass, 141 mesquite, vine, 97 mesquitegrass, 29, 55 mourning lovegrass, 149 Muhlenbergia involuta, 157 lindheimeri, 95 reverchonii, 159 muhly canyon, 157 Lindheimer, 95 seep, 159 Nash windmillgrass, 75 Nassella leucotricha, 161 neamathla skipper, 63, 171 nodding wildrye, 23 node, 8 northern broken dash skipper, 163, 169 oat, wild, 125 obscure skipper, 43 index 193 oldfield threeawn, 121 orange roadside...