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Eragrostis elliottii

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Eragrostis elliottii. See image source here.

#931 They called me Eragrostis elliottii. I pay homage to the male botanist Stephen Elliott. They first catalogued me in 1890.

Native to Alabama, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Georgia, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and Texas.

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Scleria eggersiana

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Scleria eggersiana. See image source here.

#922 They called me Scleria eggersiana, also known as Scleria grisebachii. I pay homage to the male botanist August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach. They first catalogued me in 1890.

Native to Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Crotalaria vitellina

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Crotalaria vitellina. See image source here.

#910 They called me Crotalaria vitellina, also known as Crotalaria vitellina var. schippii, and Crotalaria poeppigii. I pay homage to the male botanists Schipp (I couldn’t find his records), and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig. They first catalogued me in 1820.

Native to Belize, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Panamá, and Venezuela.