Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium


  Leersia virginica Willd. image
Photographer: Kitty Kohout           

Christopher Noll
Christopher Noll
Christopher Noll
Robert W. Freckmann
Family Poaceae
Leersia virginica Willd.
white grass
Leersia: for Johann Daniel Leers, 18th century German botanist
virginica: of Virginia
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Status: Native
Plant: perennial grass
Habitat: damp woods
(Glossary)

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Drawing by Agnes Chase from Norman C. Fassett's Grasses of Wisconsin
Synonyms 
Homalocenchrus virginicus (Willd.) Britton
Leersia virginica Willd. var. ovata (Poir.) Fernald
         
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