Anthoxanthum hirtum (Schrank) Y. Schouten & Veldkamp  
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Family: Poaceae
Northern Sweet Vernal Grass
[Hierochloe arctica J. Presl, moreHierochloe fragrans (Willd.) Roemer & J.A. Schultes, Hierochloe hirta (Schrank) Borbás, Hierochloe hirta subsp. arctica (J. Presl) G. Weim., Hierochloe hirta subsp. hirta (Schrank) Borbás [excluded], Hierochloe odorata subsp. hirta (Schrank) Tzvelev, Hierochloe odorata var. fragrans (Willd.) Richter, Savastana hirta Schrank]
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Vigorously rhizomatous; culms usually 3-6 dm, their sheaths few, elongate, bladeless or with lanceolate blades rarely over 3 cm; panicle pyramidal, 5-10 cm, with widely spreading or somewhat drooping branches; glumes shiny, ovate, 4-6 mm; staminate lemmas equaling the glumes or slightly shorter, often hairy on the back, awnless, sharply acute; fertile lemma shorter, hairy at the tip; 2n=28, 42, 56. Often apomictic or infertile. Moist soil, meadows, or bog-margins; circumboreal, s. to N.J., Md., O., Io., and Ariz. (H. nashii)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam
Infrequent in some of our northern counties where it is usually found in open marshes. I have one specimen from mucky soil of a fallow cornfield.

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Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = 10

Wetland Indicator Status: FACW

Diagnostic Traits: Fragrant grass; panicle open, the branches spreading or drooping; glumes nearly equal in length, with lateral nerves +/- obscure; 3 florets per spikelet, lower florets male, awnless.

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