Silver Beardgrass, Silver Bluestem

Bothriochloa saccharoides (Sw.) Rydb.

(formerly Andropogon sarrachoides)

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲  mature plants at beginning of flowering

▲ mature plants at end of flowering (southwest Missouri)

▲  basal foliage of plant

▲  ligule

▲  collar region

▲ inflorescences (southwest Missouri)

 

▲ inflorescence, western Oklahoma

Silver Beardgrass: 

·         native, warm-season perennial grass with silvery, white, fluffy compressed panicles at the top of slender, naked culms—some colonies have larger, fluffier inflorescences than others

·         bunch-type sprawling grass common on southwest Missouri roadsides

·         not often listed as a weed, but seems to be increasing on roadsides