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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Establishment and micropropagation of axenic in vitro cultures of salt marsh grasses within the genus #Sporobolus

New in #AppsPlantSci by @elperedo.bsky.social, Suzanne Thomas & @zcardon.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @mblscience.bsky.social #botany #saltmarsh
The background photo shows a salt marsh in Cape Cod during low tide, dominated by Sporobolus alterniflorus. The sandy bottom is visible and covered with Atlantic sand fiddler crabs (Leptuca pugilator). The image highlights the engineering role of Sporobolus along the East Coast of the United States, where it provides habitat and protection for numerous animal species. The bottom-left inset displays Sporobolus plants growing in vitro in 1 L culture jars under artificial full-spectrum light, with one plant per jar. Vitroplants are growing in agar covering approximately 1 inch of the bottom of the jar. The top-right inset shows a close-up of a vitroplant producing new shoots and roots, confirming that in vitro multiplication of Sporobolus is feasible. Photo credit: Elena Lopez Peredo
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
Modelling the decline in Sporobolus anglicus detections toward functional eradication: a case study in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.30.691427v1
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
Modelling the decline in Sporobolus anglicus detections toward functional eradication: a case study in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.30.691427v1
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
phytobiomesjournal.bsky.social
Get a First Look 🔍 “Host Plant Traits and Site History Shape Root Fungal Endophytic Communities of Sporobolus spartinae After Long-Term Exposure to Contaminants,” by Candice Y. Lumibao, Yue Liu, and Ioana E. Pavel: https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-06-25-0045-SC
Host Plant Traits and Site History Shape Root Fungal Endophytic Communities of Sporobolus spartinae After Long-Term Exposure to Contaminants | Phytobiomes Journal
Root fungal endophytes (fungi inhabiting the inside of root cells without any apparent harm) are widely recognized as important symbionts of host plants, providing benefits to the host plant such as water and nutrient acquisition. While endophyte commun...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
aeastasio.bsky.social
I gasped!
is that little bluestem or dogwood?
what's the little bunchgrass- is it a Sporobolus ?
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
sonofathomp.bsky.social
My annual acknowledgment that the bad toupees are in and are ready for harvesting.
Photo of local Sporobolus heterolepis — prairie dropseed plants, that look like bad toupees in the fall. Photo of local Sporobolus heterolepis — prairie dropseed plants, that look like bad toupees in the fall.
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
sowwildnatives.bsky.social
Some pretty blooms from this week:
Blue sage (Salvia azurea)
Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
Cliff goldenrod (Solidago drummondii)
New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
plantpref.bsky.social
Plants for the Great Dixter Plant Fair this weekend:

1. Amsonia orientalis & Solanum laxum 'Coldham'
2.Sporobolus airoides & Symphyotrichum 'Little Carlow'
3.Symphyotrichum 'Prairie Purple' & Pennisetum orientale 'Tall Tails'
4.Symphyotrichum puniceum & Molinia caerulea ssp caerulea 'Jahreslauf'
October 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Today’s #AlwaysBePlanting report, clearance #NativePlants edition: 4x Monarda fistulosa; 6x Sporobolus heterolepis; 6x Parthenium auriculatum; 6x Phlox ‘Rose Bouquet’; & 1x Physostegia virginiana ‘Vivid’. As always, focus on #biodiversity & #February2Frost blooms.

#gardening #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱
Trays of happy plants with great roots ready to go into the ground to settle in before winter. No rain lately, so a full watering today too.
August 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
#WeAreAllZoey was enraptured by minty #NativePlants Monarda fistulosa. We also got Sporobolus heterolepis, Parthenium auriculatum, & cultivars Phlox ‘Summer Bouquet’ (long-blooming sterile hybrid) & Physostegia virginiana ‘Vivid’ (shorter & slightly less spready). Not bad for $3 clearance plants! 🌱
Small grey and brown Cattle Dog #GardenDogs #WeAreAllZoey inspecting the trays of new plant arrivals, which look great for end of season sale time bargains, and she must have gone over the Monarda with her sniffer like 5 or 6 times. She loves fragrant #gardening too!
August 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
mta-lace.bsky.social
#Publication: Our paper led by Marci and Torma, has been published in Insect Conservation and Diversity with the title "Spreading of recently introduced North American sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus) threatens European native dry grassland arthropods". doi.org/10.1111/icad...
Spreading of recently introduced North American sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus) threatens European native dry grassland arthropods
The effects of sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus) invasion on arthropods depended on its density and varied between habitat types and arthropod groups. Vegetation-dwelling, primarily herbivorous...
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August 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
respublications.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv

Spreading of recently introduced North American sand #dropseed (#Sporobolus cryptandrus) threatens European native dry #grassland #arthropods
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70012

#Biodiversity #Abundance #SpeciesRichness
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August 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
ecoblossom.bsky.social
This is going to be a long list, and I am really excited about this one because it includes some new and hard to find species.

We now have the following available:

- 4" Tall Dropseed (Sporobolus compositus)
- 4" Red Columbine
- 4" Drummond's Clematis (Clematis drummondii)
August 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
chrosma.bsky.social
Leuk (of niet), nu ook rattenstaartgras (Sporobolus indicus) in Rijnsweerd, Utrecht
August 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
gardeningkristi.bsky.social
Late August views from the garden beds. Great Blue Lobelia, Spotted Bee Balm and Prairie Dropseed, Hummingbird Mint, Sneezeweed. Everyone is drooping and flat due to rain. The insects don't mind. 🌱 #nativeplants
Purple spikey flowers are shown near a beige house. The name of the plant is Lobelia siphilitica. Pink spikey flowers and tufty grass with thin blades are shown in a garden bed. The names of the plants are Monarda punctata and Sporobolus heterolepis. Red spikey flowers are shown in a garden bed with the street in the background. The name of the plant is Agastache rupestris. Yellow daisy like flowers with a yellow center are shown in the garden with the street in the background. The flowers are shaped like shuttlecocks. The name of the plant is Helenium autumnale.
August 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
chrosma.bsky.social
Dit is wel de opmerkelijkste soort van deze zomer: rattenstaartgras (Sporobolus indicus). Op de 7 campings waar we gestaan hebben was deze soort op alle campings aanwezig (F, ES, PT). Dat is ruim meer dan straatgras (Poa annua), dat ik slechts op en rondom 3 campings aantrof……
August 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
phytokeys.pensoft.net
Researchers present a molecular DNA phylogeny investigating 123 species of the subtribe Sporobolinae. They describe a new genus with two species, erect two new sections within Sporobolus, and make three new combinations.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
Reticulation within Sporobolus: recognition of two new sections, Acinifolii and Thellungia, and a new genus, Hyalolemma (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Zoysieae, Sporobolinae)
We present a molecular DNA phylogeny utilizing four plastid regions (rps16–trnK spacer, rps16 intron, rpl32–trnL spacer, ndhA intron) and the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region...
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August 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
gbifmorpho.bsky.social
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Reticulation within Sporobolus: recognition of two new sections, Acinifolii and Thellungia, and a new genus, Hyalolemma (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Zoysieae, Sporobolinae) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/e5a6d40d-56dd-498c-a553-70ef8bcce42f
August 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
tmigratorius.bsky.social
Sporobolus heterolepis, commonly known as prairie dropseed, is a species of prairie grass native to the tallgrass and mixed grass prairies of central North America from Texas to southern Canada.

It's finally spreading! Yay. Other native grasses that I planted aren't doing as well.
July 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
tmigratorius.bsky.social
foxtail pricklegrass (Sporobolus alopecuroides).

Pretty, but introduced.
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June 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ellenclark.bsky.social
Got these yesterday at a 100% native local( well, 85 miles away) nursery. I already had planted out so many seedlings from my winter sowing. Just wanted a few big ones to see flowering this year #Nativeplants
Eupatorium maculatum, Asclepias incaranta, Monarda fistulosa, Sisyrinchium atlanticum, Vernonia glauca, Helenium autumnale,Sporobolus heterolepis , 4 Solidago, Heliopsis,Carex bicknellii, Kalmia angustifolia
May 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
davidlampen.bsky.social
I winter sowed Sporobolus. I think one or two shoots are starting to poke up - or it might be some other volunteer.
April 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
bluejae.bsky.social
Me to my husband: "Please note, this is the expensive grass that we paid for on purpose, not the free grass that we are trying to kill." Native prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepus) looks a lot like every other kind of grass when it's small.
A tiny tuft of green grass among pine bark mulch, caged in hardware cloth to protect it from rabbits and also frankly the people who planted it who might otherwise forget that they put it there on purpose.
March 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
bwarn.bsky.social
Grasses are plants too and very important as shelter plants for pollinators. Not a grass expert, but looks a bit like sporobolus sp. there. Maybe a native, maybe not, just had to plug the native grasses.
February 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
trueandfiction.bsky.social
drop-seed
- A grass of the genus sporobolus

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#definition #drop-seed #meaning #english #ielts
Definition of drop-seed
drop-seed a grass of the genus Sporobolusnnn #definition #meaning #drop-seed #ielts #learnenglish #education #british
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January 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM