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Botanical name: 
Andropogon
Sorghastrum nutans

ANDROPOGON, L. Sedge Grass. Many species, disliked by cattle because coarse and dry; but the A. ciliatus makes good hay in Florida. Some of our species may be equivalent to A. schenanthus and A. nardus.


Medical Flora, or Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States of North America, Vol. 2, 1830, was written by C. S. Rafinesque.

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