Silver Beardgrass

Silver Beardgrass, Silver Bluestem

Bothriochloa saccharoides (Sw.) Rydb.
(formerly Andropogon sarrachoides)

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲ mature plants at beginning of flowering

▲ mature plants at end of flowering (southwest Missouri)

▲ basal foliage of plant

▲ ligule

▲ collar region

▲ inflorescences (southwest Missouri)

▲ inflorescence, western Oklahoma

Silver Beardgrass:

native, warm-season perennial grass with silvery, white, fluffy compressed panicles at the top of slender, naked culms--some colonies have larger, fluffier inflorescences than others
bunch-type sprawling grass common on southwest Missouri roadsides
not often listed as a weed, but seems to be increasing on roadsides