Talk:Heteropogon contortus

Native distribution; "seeds"
I notice several problems here:

1) According to the Grass Manual on the Web (http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/), the native distribution is in the southern United States.

2) "Seed" is apparently being used to refer to the entire sessile spikelets. I know wikipedians try to avoid overly complicated terminology when possible. However, as is often the case in botanical articles, this attempt to simplify terminology is flat out wrong and misleading.

3) Similarly, the pointed callus of the sessile spikelets is referred to as a "sharp spike". In the terminology of grasses, a "spike" is a kind of inflorescence, not a part of a sessile spikelet, much less part of a seed. Paalexan (talk) 06:32, 10 October 2011 (UTC)