Today I visited a unique grassland not far from the Big Hollow Prairie. I've come to call it the Sporobolus Grassland, be cause poverty dropseed or
Sporobolus vaginiflorus is the dominant graminoid at this site.
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| Allium cernuum was blooming in abundance |
Poverty dropseed leaves are long and wiry and create a beautiful wispy texture in grasslands where it predominates. Unfortunately this seems to be last remaining dropseed grassland in the area. Most grasslands in Pennsylvania are not stable and are changing to woodland and invasive shrub thickets. Black walnuts are encroaching upon this grassland. In addition, the exotic invasive bush honeysuckles and autumn olive are problematic invaders at this site as well.
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| Flowering spurge: Euphorbia corrollata |
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Flowering spurge is blooming in abundance in this habitat.
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| A small colony of Pale indian plantain: Cacalia atriplicifolia, grows at this site |
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