Axonopus compressus |
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broadleaf carpetgrass |
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Habit | Plants stoloniferous, rarely rhizomatous, rhizomes, when present, 3-5 cm. |
Culms | 7-80 cm; nodes glabrous or pubescent. |
Sheaths | keeled, strongly compressed, pubescent; ligules 0.3-0.5 mm; blades 3-20 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pilose, midveins often white and prominent, apices frequently ciliate or pubescent. |
Panicles | terminal and axillary, 4-10 cm overall, rachises to 3.5 cm, with 2-5 branches; branches 1-13 cm. |
Spikelets | 2-3.5 mm, ovoid, ellipsoid, or lanceoloid, acuminate. |
Upper glumes | and lower lemmas extending beyond the upper florets, 2-5-veined, marginal veins pilose, apices acute to acuminate; upper lemmas and paleas 1.5-1.8 mm, broadly ellipsoid. |
Caryopses | 1.2-1.5 mm, gray. |
2n | = 40, 60, 80. |
Axonopus compressus |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; SC; TX; PR; Virgin Islands
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Discussion | Axonopus compressus is native from the southeastern United States to Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay, and has become established in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is used as a lawn and forage grass but is also weedy, readily growing in moist, disturbed habitats. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 566. |
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Name authority | (Sw.) P. Beauv. |
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