Poaceae
Small redleaf
Schizachyrium fragile
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Schizachyrium
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Common names
By language (2)
- Chinese
- 斜须裂稃草, 斜鬚裂稃草, 尖葉裂稃草
- English
- Small redleaf
Synonyms
- Andropogon brevifolius var. fragilis (R.Br.) Hack.
- Andropogon fragilis R.Br.
- Andropogon fragilis var. sinensis Rendle
- Andropogon obliquiberbis Hack.
- Andropogon shimadae Ohwi
- Eulalia simplex Hosok.
- Pollinia fragilis (R.Br.) Spreng.
- Schizachyrium fragile var. shimadae (Ohwi) P.S.Hsu
- Schizachyrium fragile var. sinense (Rendle) Jansen
- Schizachyrium obliquiberbe (Hack.) A.Camus
- Schizachyrium shimadae (Ohwi) Ohwi
- Sorghum obliquiberbe (Hack.) Kuntze
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Pacific Basin: native
Photos
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.