Flora of North America species comparison

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Paspalum bifidum

pitchfork crowngrass, pitchfork paspalum
Habit Plants perennial; rhizomatous.
Culms

60-140 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.
Sheaths

pubescent;

ligules 2-4 mm;

blades to 37 cm long, 2.2-11 mm wide, flat.
Panicles

terminal, with 2-5 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 3.7-13 cm, divergent to erect;

branch axes 0.2-0.8 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet.
Spikelets

3.1-4 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, paired, not imbricate, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to obovate, yellow-brown.
Caryopses

2.6-2.9 mm, purple.
Lower

glumes present or absent;

upper glumes glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally, (6)7-veined, margins entire;

lower lemmas glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally, lacking ribs over the veins, 5-veined, margins entire;

upper florets white.
2n

= unknown.

Paspalum bifidum
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion

Paspalum bifidum is restricted to the southeastern United States. It grows at the edges of forests in longleaf pine-oak-grass ecosystems, usually in dry to mesic loamy sandy soils. It grows vigorously following fire.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 25, p. 586.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum
Sibling taxa
P. acuminatum, P. almum, P. blodgettii, P. boscianum, P. caespitosum, P. conjugatum, P. conspersum, P. convexum, P. coryphaeum, P. dilatatum, P. dissectum, P. distichum, P. fimbriatum, P. floridanum, P. hartwegianum, P. intermedium, P. laeve, P. langei, P. laxum, P. lividum, P. malacophyllum, P. minus, P. modestum, P. monostachyum, P. nicorae, P. notatum, P. paniculatum, P. pleostachyum, P. plicatulum, P. praecox, P. pubiflorum, P. quadrifarium, P. racemosum, P. repens, P. scrobiculatum, P. setaceum, P. unispicatum, P. urvillei, P. vaginatum, P. virgatum, P. virletii, P. wrightii
Name authority (Bertol.) Nash
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