Digitaria sanguinalis |
Digitaria tomentosa |
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common crabgrass, crabgrass, digitaire sanguine, hairy crab grass |
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Habit | Plants annual. | Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. |
Culms | 20-70(112), often decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. |
40-90 cm, erect, geniculate. |
Sheaths | keeled, usually sparsely pubescent with papillose-based hairs; ligules 0.5-2.6 mm; blades 2-11(14) cm long, 3-8(12) mm wide, usually with papillose-based hairs on both surfaces, sometimes glabrous. |
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Panicles | with 4-13 spikelike primary branches, these subdigitate or on rachises to 6 cm; primary branches 3-30 cm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide, flattened and winged, wings more than 1/2 as wide as the midribs, lower and middle portion of the branches bearing spikelets in unequally pedicellate pairs, pedicels not adnate to the branches; secondary branches rarely present. |
simple, 10-18 cm, open; branches divergent; pedicels 0.4-3 mm, divergent, spikelets solitary. |
Spikelets | homomorphic, 1.7-3.4 mm long, 0.7-1.1 mm wide. |
2-2.5 mm, elliptical, apiculate. |
Lower glumes | 0.2-0.4 mm long, veinless; upper glumes 0.9-2 mm, 1/3 – 1/2 as long as the spikelets, 3-veined, pubescent on the margins; lower lemmas usually exceeded or equaled by the upper florets, sometimes exceeding them but by no more than 0.2 mm, glabrous, 7-veined, lateral (or all) veins scabrous throughout or smooth on the lower (1/3)1/2 and scabrous distally, 3 middle veins usually widely spaced, remaining veins on each side close together and near the margins; upper lemmas 1.7-3 mm, yellow or gray, frequently purple-tinged when immature, often becoming brown at maturity; anthers 0.5-0.9 mm. |
absent or to 0.2 mm; upper glumes absent or to 0.6 mm, veinless; lower lemmas as long as the spikelets, 5-veined, margins and intercostal regions more or less pubescent; upper lemmas minutely rugose, dark brown. |
Lower | sheaths densely villous; upper sheaths with scattered papillose-based hairs; ligules 1.5-3 mm; blades 4-7(12) cm long, 3-5 mm wide, villous to nearly glabrous, usually sparsely hairy near the ligules. |
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2n | = 36, 28, 34, 54. |
= 36. |
Digitaria sanguinalis |
Digitaria tomentosa |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; PR; AB; BC; MB; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK
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Discussion | Digitaria sanguinalis is a weedy Eurasian species that is now found in waste ground of fields, gardens, and lawns throughout much of the world, including the Flora region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
A native of southern India and Ceylon, Digitaria tomentosa is a noxious weed that is not known to occur in the Flora region. It is included here to help ensure that any introduction is correctly identified. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 380. | FNA vol. 25, p. 364. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Digitaria | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Digitaria |
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Synonyms | Syntherisma sanguinalis | |
Name authority | (L.) Scop. | (J. Konig ex Rottler) Henrard |
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