Calamovilfa brevipilus
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Calamovilfa brevipilus (Torr.) Scribn. |
| Common name: | pine barrens reedgrass |
| Group: | monocot |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Growth type: | graminoid |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | culms 6-12 dm high |
| Foliage: | basal sheets keeled; blades long, linear, nearly flat or involute |
| Flower: | spikelets 1 flowered, awnless; panicle purplish |
| Flowering time: | blooms/fruits early July-late September |
| Habitat: | sandy, shaded bogs, swamps, stream banks, common in cranberry bogs |
| Range in New Jersey: | throughout the pine barrens |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | LP |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Note the hard "knuckle" in the top left photograph that is characteristic of this species. Witmer Stone, in 1910, describes this as one of the "characteristic grasses of the Pine Barrens. In general appearance it strikingly recalls Tridens flavus" (228). Calamos, Greek, a reed; and Vilfa, a name applied by Adanson to a genus of grasses; brevipilis, with short hairs (on the calyx) |