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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 branches. — In dry, sandy 

 soil m open woods and along thicket borders from Delaware to 

 Missouri and southward to the Gulf. August-October. 



