Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Digitaria filiformis
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Learn more about Digitaria from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Digitaria filiformis
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Digitaria filiformis var. filiformis
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)
Digitaria filiformis var. filiformis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-75-001a:
Digitaria filiformis var. filiformis FAMILY Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Digitaria filiformis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Syntherisma filiformis
COMMON NAME:
Slender Crabgrass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_difi_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_dila13_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_syfi2_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_dfiliformisfilif73779
September Miami-Dade County FL
Spikelet, showing shiny dark brown fertile lemma beneath upper glume.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Digitaria filiformis
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Digitaria filiformis
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Digitaria filiformis var. filiformis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Digitaria filiformis var. filiformis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-75-001a:
Digitaria filiformis var. filiformis
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Digitaria filiformis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Syntherisma filiformis
3924
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual/Perennial
Habitat: pine flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhills, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Inflorescence composed of 2-7 ascending spikelike racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain
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