South Sister Knob, McCowan Spring, VA
South Sister Knob, McCowan Spring, VA
(remains of flowering stalk)
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Family: Melanthiaceae (Bunchflower family)
Mid-Atlantic bloom time:
May - June
Mid-Atlantic fruit ripe:
July - August
Sterile Turkeybeard plants resemble tussocks of a bunchgrass, but the leaf bases are white and flattened and are obviously not those of a grass. The leaves remain gray-green to green throughout the winter. Episodic flowering of Turkeybeard often are stimulated by fire and canopy-opening disturbances (such as southern pine beetle outbreaks).
Some sources put Turkeybeard's genus Xerophyllum into its own family Xerophyllaceae (Beardgrass).
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21 September 2024
South Sister Knob, McCowan Spring, VA
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21 September 2024
South Sister Knob, McCowan Spring, VA (remains of flowering stalk)
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