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NOLINA BEARGRASS

Dale W. McNeal & James C. Dice



Stem: thick, woody or ± below ground.
Leaf: rosettes 6–20 dm, stiff, sword-like, base much expanded, white, fleshy.
Inflorescence: panicle or raceme-like, scapose, bracted, < 4 m.
Flower: perianth parts 6 in 2 petal-like whorls, < 6 mm, ± white; stamens 6, filaments slender; pistil reduced in staminate flowers, pistillate flowers with staminodes; ovary superior, 3-chambered, style and 3 stigmas short, ovules 2 per chamber.
Fruit: capsule, papery.
Seed: 1–3 per fruit, ovoid.
± 30 species: s US, Mex. (P.C. Nolin, French agriculturist, b. 1717) [Hess 2003 FNANM 26:415–421] Lf widths taken just above expanded leaf base.
Unabridged references: [Munz & Roos 1950 Aliso 2:217–238]

Key to Nolina

1. St below ground, horizontal; leaf blade 12–35 mm wide ..... N. interrata

1' St generally above ground, erect; leaf blade 12–48 mm wide

2. Lf margin in age fibrous-shredding; seed gray-white; DMtns, DSon ..... N. bigelovii

2' Lf margin in age not fibrous-shredding; seed red-brown; s SNH (Kern Plateau), SCo, WTR, e SnBr, PR

3. Lf base 3–8.5 cm wide, inflorescence 0.9–1.8 m; dry chaparral of coastal mtns; SCo, WTR, PR ..... N. cismontana

3' Lf base 5–16.5 cm wide; inflorescence 1.4–3.8 m; pinyon/juniper woodland, rocky desert slopes; s SNH (Kern Plateau), e SnBr, PR, DMtns, DSon ..... N. parryi

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