Flora of North America species comparison

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Axonopus furcatus

big carpetgrass
Habit Plants stoloniferous.
Culms

30-100 cm;

nodes glabrous or pubescent.
Sheaths

compressed, glabrous or sparsely to densely pilose, hairs appressed;

ligules 0.3-1 mm;

blades 3-25 cm long, 2-15 mm wide, margins often with papillose-based hairs near the base, scabrous distally.
Panicles

terminal and axillary, with 2 (-4) divergent branches;

branches 4-15 cm.
Spikelets

3.5-5.5 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, ovoid-ellipsoid, acuminate.
Upper glumes

glabrous, 5-7-veined;

lower lemmas 5-7-veined, glabrous or sparsely pilose over the veins;

upper lemmas and paleas 2.5-3.2 mm, light yellow, obtuse.
Caryopses

1.8-2.2 mm, obovate, yellow.
2n

= unknown.

Axonopus furcatus
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; LA; MD; MS; NC; OK; SC; TX; VA
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Discussion

Axonopus furcatus is endemic to the southeastern United States. It grows in moist pine barrens, marshes, river banks, wet ditches, pond margins, and other such damp areas.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 25, p. 566.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Axonopus
Sibling taxa
A. compressus, A. fissifolius, A. scoparius
Name authority (Flüggé) Hitchc.
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