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Hybridization Between Divergent Types of Big Bluestem, Andropogon gerardi Vitman, and Sand Bluestem, Andropogon hallii Hack 1
Author(s) -
Peters LeRoy V.,
Newell L. C.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1961.0011183x000100050019x
Subject(s) - andropogon , crop , agricultural experiment station , grossman , agronomy , biology , library science , agriculture , ecology , computer science , economics , keynesian economics
TH genus A~dropogo~ has long been recognized as ~mportant in American grassland flora. Big bluestem, A. gerardi Vitman, is an important dominant in the North American true prairie formation, whereas sand bluestem, A. hallii Hack., is an important component of the vegetation on upland sandy soils farther west. These two grasses appear morphologically and cytologically much more closely related to each other than to any other of the numerous species of Andropogon in the southern and eastern part of the United States.