Chloris
Chloris {{{latin_name}}}
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Finger Grass
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Chloris (the goddess of flowers). Gramineae. Finger Grass. Annual or usually perennial grasses, sometimes grown for decoration. Plants with flat blades, compressed sheaths and digitate unilateral spikes: spikelets with 1 perfect fl. and 1 or more rudimentary sterile lemmas on the prolonged rachilla.— Species about 40, in the warmer regions of the world. A few are cult. for ornament on account of the attractive infl. Of simple treatment. CH
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Species
- C. gracilis, Dur. (syn. Leptochloa virgata, Beauv). This has been recommended as an ornamental.CH
- C.petraea, Swartz, and C. gluca, Vasey, both handsome species from Fla., have been recommended for cult. as ornamentals.CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963