A genus of grasses known as bluestem or beardgrass, named for the distinctive hair-like bristles on their flower parts.
From Greek 'andros' (male) + 'pogon' (beard), because the male flower parts are covered in long, beard-like bristles. This is the genus name given by Linnaeus in the 1700s.
Andropogon grass creates the 'bluestem' prairies of America, and Linnaeus named it because the seed clusters look like a bearded man's chin—sometimes science is just poetic observation!
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