Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum

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Species Distribution Map
Family:POACEAE
Species:Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum (Schult.) Hitchc.
Common Name:Florida Peanut Grass; Perennial Goober Grass; Blue Maiden Cane
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Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Florida Peanut Grass is a native perennial in the Grass family (Poaceae). It is found in the southern-most counties of Alabama. Florida Peanut Grass grows in moist open areas such as low pine woodlands, around depression ponds, and in roadside ditches. It is a perennial from a long-creeping rhizome. Culms (stems) are erect to decumbent, 1-3 feet in height, green in color, with the leaves more or less evenly distributed along the stems. The leaves are linear, glabrous, and entire. The leaves have a thin white border along their margins. The leaf sheath is glabrous to slightly pubescent. Flowers are produced in spikelets of two florets that are solitary or in open panicles. Two types are produced—subterranean and aerial. The aerial spikelets are sterile or mostly so and the subterranean spikelets are fertile. The subterranean spikelets are ellipsoidal in outline, with one glume. The aerial spikelets are lanceoloid in outline with 1 or 2 unequal glumes. Florida Peanut Grass is listed as a S1 species in Alabama (typically 5 or fewer occurrences, very few remaining individuals, or some factor of its biology making it especially vulnerable in the state) and globally as a G4 species (imperiled globally because of rarity or very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range because of other factors).—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, FACW (NWI), S1 (State Rank), G4 (Global Rank)
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyPOACEAE - Grass family
Genus Amphicarpum
Species Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum (Schult.) Hitchc. - Florida Peanut Grass; Perennial Goober Grass; Blue Maiden Cane

Citation

Citation Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum (Schultes) Hitchcock, Bartonia 14: 34. 1932.
Basionym: Milium muhlenbergianum Schult. [as "mühlenbergianum"] 1824.
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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Milium muhlenbergianum Milium muhlenbergianum Schultes, Mant. 2: 178. 1824.  
Amphicarpum floridanum Amphicarpum floridanum Chapman, Fl. South. U.S. 572. 1860. FLORIDA: Franklin Co.: Apalachicola, s.d., Chapman s.n. (holotype: NY; isotype: NY).

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Baldwin, Covington, Houston

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, TROY, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
AUA000014851 Covington 5 Oct 1971 Kral, Robert
44731		 AUA
Amphicarpum Muehlenbergianum (J. A. Schultes) A. S. Hitchc.
UWAL0047367 Covington 22 Oct 2017 Diamond, Alvin R.
27959		 UWAL
Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum (J. A. Schultes) Hitchcock
JSU105932 Houston 04 Aug 1996 MacDonald, John R.
9824		 JSU
Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum (J. A. Schultes) Hitchcock
JSU105933 Houston 03 Nov 1996 MacDonald, John R.
9989b		 JSU
Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum (J. A. Schultes) Hitchcock
TROY000045522 Covington 22 Oct 2017 Diamond, Alvin R.
27959		 TROY
Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum (J. A. Schultes) Hitchcock
ALNHS00008342 Covington 16 Aug 2023 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#6169		 ALNHS
Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum (Schult.) Hitchc.
UWAL0018679 Baldwin 28 Jun 1991 Kral, Robert
79277		 UWAL
Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum (J.A. Schultes) A.S. Hitchc.
ALNHS00008341 Covington 16 Aug 2023 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#6169		 ALNHS
Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum (Schult.) Hitchc.
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