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''Sorghastrum'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
grass Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and spe ...
es, native to
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.Nash, George Valentine. 1901. Manual of the Flora of the northern States and Canada page 71
/ref> Members of the genus are commonly known as Indiangrass. ; Selected * '' Sorghastrum balansae'' (Hack.) Dávila - Paraguay * '' Sorghastrum brunneum'' Swallen - Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras * '' Sorghastrum chaseae'' Swallen - Mato Grosso, Paraíba * '' Sorghastrum contractum'' (Hack.) M.Kuhlm. & Kuhn - Brazil * '' Sorghastrum crassum'' Renvoize - Bolivia * '' Sorghastrum elliottii'' (C.Mohr) Nash – Slender Indiangrass - southeastern + south-central USA (Texas to Virginia) * '' Sorghastrum fuscescens'' (Pilg.) Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi * '' Sorghastrum incompletum'' (J.Presl) Nash - Latin America from Mexico to Bolivia; Africa from Senegal to Zimbabwe * '' Sorghastrum minarum'' (Nees) Hitchc. - Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina * '' Sorghastrum nudipes'' Nash - Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Limpopo, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola * '' Sorghastrum nutans'' (L.) Nash – Yellow Indiangrass - Canada, USA, Mexico, Honduras * '' Sorghastrum pellitum'' (Hack.) Parodi - Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay * '' Sorghastrum pogonostachyum'' (Stapf) Clayton - Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi * '' Sorghastrum pohlianum'' Dávila, L.I.Cabrera & R.Lira - Socorro Island in
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* '' Sorghastrum scaberrimum'' (Nees) Herter - Brazil * '' Sorghastrum secundum'' (Elliott) Nash – Lopsided Indiangrass - southeastern USA; Bahamas * '' Sorghastrum setosum'' (Griseb.) Hitchc. – Sandysoil Indiangrass - Latin America + West Indies from Veracruz to Uruguay * '' Sorghastrum stipoides'' (Kunth) Nash – Needle Indiangrass - tropical + southern Africa; naturalized in Latin America * '' Sorghastrum tisserantii'' Clayton - Central African Rep * '' Sorghastrum viride'' Swallen - Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay


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Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
Andropogoneae Poaceae genera {{Panicoideae-stub