Family: Poaceae
false melic grass
[Avena torreyi Nash, more...]
Christopher Noll
Emmet J. Judziewicz
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium (UWSP)
Etymology: Schizachne: from schizo for "to split" and achne for "chaff"
Plants: perennial grass
Conservation Status: Native
Plants: perennial grass
Conservation Status: Native
Mesic to dry forests (often in clearings and meadows) of oak-pine, oak, aspen-birch, sugar maple-yellow birch, sugar maple-basswood, aspen-spruce-bur oak, maple-oak, mixed conifers, beech-maple-hemlock, spruce-balsam fir-balsam poplar, maple-balsam fir-white cedar, oak-beech-maple, hemlock-hardwoods, aspen-spruce-elm, jack pine-aspen; swampy woods of black ash-white cedar-elm, aspen-black ash-red maple, black ash-sugar maple-elm. Also on wooded rock outcrops and talus slopes, wooded dunes, and occasionally in red pine plantations.
Like Oryzopsis asperifolia, this is an early-blooming forest grass and the two often grow together. This is an attractive species, the glumes often flushed with purple. Found primarily across northern Wisconsin but extending southward along Lake Michigan and with disjunct populations in the Driftless Area.
Like Oryzopsis asperifolia, this is an early-blooming forest grass and the two often grow together. This is an attractive species, the glumes often flushed with purple. Found primarily across northern Wisconsin but extending southward along Lake Michigan and with disjunct populations in the Driftless Area.
Flora of North America: Flora of North America Floristic Rating: Coefficient of Conservatism = 7, Wetland Indicator = FACU+ USDA Plants Database: Federal Distribution and detailed information including photos Grasses of Iowa: Detailed photographs, descriptions, maps Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food
Alberta Government: "The identification of certain native and naturalized grasses by their vegetative characters", S.E. Clarke, J.A. Campbell and W. Shevkenek. 1950.
(Publication no. 762 ; Technical bulletin no. 50). Drawings, descriptions.
Alberta Government: "The identification of certain native and naturalized grasses by their vegetative characters", S.E. Clarke, J.A. Campbell and W. Shevkenek. 1950.
(Publication no. 762 ; Technical bulletin no. 50). Drawings, descriptions.
Emmet J. Judziewicz
Emmet J. Judziewicz
Robert W. Freckmann
Christopher Noll
