Yellow Bluestem, King Ranch Bluestem
Bothriochloa ischaemum (L.) Keng.
(formerly Andropogon ischaemum)
Poaceae (Grass Family)
▲ ▼mature, flowering plants
▲ inflorescence
▲ basal foliage
Yellow Bluestem:
· warm-season perennial grass with spreading, mostly bunch-type growth habit
· one of the old-world bluestems (similar to Caucasian Bluestem)
· has thin, light green, rolled leaves with long hairs at base of leaf blades
· inflorescences is a tan to purplish digitate panicle on top of slender, nearly leafless culm
· not common, but will spread once established in a lawn