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Fig. 11. Andropogon argyraeus Schultes. Silver-beard or 

 Silvery Beard-Grass. A rather slender native grass 6 to 9 dm. 

 high, with narrow leaves and silky-bearded racemes, which are 

 in pairs, terminal on the culm or its hranches. In dry, sandj 

 soil in open woods and aloui;- thicket borders from Delaware to 

 Missouri and southward to tin- Gulf. August-* >ctoher. 



