Ocean County Parks & Recreation issued the following announcement.
Bearded Wonders is a lily-like plant whose foliage superficially resembles a bunchgrass in the Xerophyllaceae (or Beargrass) Family.
Only 2 species occur in the family, and X. Asphodeloides is the only eastern US native. In North Carolina, and elsewhere in the Southern Appalachians, Turkey Beard may be found on dry or even xeric ridges and slopes where periodic fire was an important ecological process.
After a series of experimental treatments it was found that prescribed burning and canopy opening resulted in "an immense flowering response."
Native Distribution: New Jersey, Maryland, and West Virginia south to Georgia and west to Alabama and Tennessee.
Original source can be found here.
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