Wiregrass is a common name for several plants
Wiregrass may refer to:
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Poaceae
Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...
grasses
** ''
Aristida
''Aristida'' is a very nearly Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family. ''Aristida'' is distinguished by having three Awn (Botany), awns (bristles) on each lemma (botany), lemma of each floret. The gen ...
'' (three-awns), especially ''
Aristida stricta
''Aristida stricta'', known as wiregrass or pineland three-awn grass, is a warm-season grass native to North America. The species dominates understory vegetation in sandhills and flatwoods coastal plain ecosystems of the Carolinas in the Southeas ...
'' (Pineland Three-awn), ''
Aristida junciformis'' and ''
Aristida purpurea
''Aristida purpurea'' is a species of grass native to North America which is known by the common name purple three-awn.
Distribution
This grass is fairly widespread and can be found across the western two thirds of the United States, much of ...
'' (Purple Three-awn), of subfamily Arundinoideae
** ''
Eleusine indica
''Eleusine indica'', the Indian goosegrass, yard-grass, goosegrass, wiregrass, or crowfootgrass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is a small annual grass distributed throughout the warmer areas of the world to about 50 degrees lati ...
'' (Indian Goosegrass) of subfamily Eragrostideae
** ''
Sporobolus indicus
''Sporobolus indicus'' is a species of grass known by the common name smut grass.
Distribution
This bunchgrass is native to temperate and tropical areas of the Americas.
It can be found in more regions, as well as on many Pacific Islands, as an ...
'' (Smutgrass) of subfamily Chloridoideae
** ''
Cynodon dactylon
''Cynodon dactylon'', commonly known as Bermuda grass, also known as couch grass in Australia and New Zealand, is a grass found worldwide. It is native to Europe, Africa, Australia and much of Asia. It has been introduced to the Americas. Contra ...
'' (Bermuda Grass) of subfamily Chloridoideae
** ''
Ventenata dubia'' of subfamily Pooideae, native to the Mediterranean and naturalized in western North America
* Other plants
** ''
Juncus tenuis
''Juncus tenuis'', the slender rush, is a clump-forming, round-stemmed perennial in the Juncaceae (rush family). Slender rush grows to be between 15 and 60 cm tall. Generally considered a weed, it is rarely sold by retailers as a household ...
'' (Slender Rush) of the rush family
** ''
Polygonum arenastrum'' (Common Knotweed) of the knotweed family
See also
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Wiregrass Region
The Wiregrass region, also known as the Wiregrass plains or Wiregrass country, is an area of the Southern United States encompassing parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. The region is named for the native ' ...
, an area of the
Southern United States
The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South) is List of regions of the United States, census regions defined by the United States Cens ...
encompassing parts of southern
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States
Georgia may also refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
, southeastern
Alabama
Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...
and the
Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...
Panhandle
A salient, panhandle, or bootheel is an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
While similar to a peninsula in shape, a salient is most often not surrounded by water on three sides. Ins ...
, and named for its abundance of ''Aristida stricta''
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