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Little Bluestems Schizachyrium

Every rated Schizachyrium record is keep-away — 1 of 3 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is rated fire-resistant. These counts describe the cited records — 3 records carrying 17 evidence rows from 9 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Schizachyrium Schizachyrium Awaiting evidence Limited evidence 3 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›

Keep away

1 species

Little Bluestem Keep away Schizachyrium scoparium Consensus · 12 sources Zones 4–4 genus-level claims ↑

Awaiting evidence

1 species

Schizachyrium sanguineum Awaiting evidence Schizachyrium sanguineum Limited evidence · 2 sources genus-level claims ↑

About little bluestems

Corpus context. Schizachyrium is the directory's #355 largest of 550 genus groups: 3 records carrying 17 evidence rows from 9 cited sources, recorded as grass , hardy across USDA zones 4–4. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Schizachyrium: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated little bluestems grow

Tagged as growing in 49 states.

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