Nolina erumpens: Difference between revisions

'''''Nolina erumpens''''', the '''foothill beargrass''',<ref>{{PLANTS|id=NOER|taxon=Nolina erumpens|accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref> '''mesa sacahuista''',<ref name=FNA/> or '''sand beargrass,''' is a member of the subfamily [[AsparagaceaeNolinaceae]] of family subfamily [[NolinaceaeAsparagaceae]], native to [[New Mexico]], [[Texas]] and adjacent regions of north [[Mexico]].<ref name="mommabear">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=282156 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref>

The 2-2.6 feet long, 0.8 inch wide longitudinally grooved leaves of ''N. erumpens'' grow in wide tufts, and are sharp and serrated on the margins with loose-hanging filament-like appendages. The inflorescences are club shaped and rarely grow longer than the leaves, and bear numerous tiny, cream-colored flowers.<ref name=FNA>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101799 Flora of North America, Vol. 26 Page 416, 418, Mesa sacahuista, ''Nolina erumpens'' (Torrey) S. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 14: 248. 1879. ]</ref> The plant flowers in the late spring and early summer and the flowers attract ants, wasps and bees.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80359503|title=Little Big Bend : Common, Uncommon, and Rare Plants of Big Bend National Park|last=Morey|first=Roy|date=2008|publisher=Texas Tech University Press|isbn=9780896726130|location=Lubbock|pages=39|oclc=80359503}}</ref> Fruit is capsule-shaped and thin-walled.<ref name=":0" />