Flora of North America species comparison

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Paspalum laeve

field beadgrass, field paspalum
Habit Plants perennial; shortly rhizomatous.
Culms

40-120 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous or pubescent.
Sheaths

glabrous or pubescent;

ligules 1.5-3.8 mm;

blades to 37 cm long, 2-9.3 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent.
Panicles

terminal, with 1-6 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 2-10.9 cm, diverging to spreading (rarely erect), persistent;

branch axes 0.6-1.3 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet.
Spikelets

2.3-3.3 mm long, 2-2.7 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to obovate or nearly orbicular, glabrous, stramineous.
Caryopses

about 2 mm, white to yellow-brown.
Lower

glumes absent;

upper glumes 3-veined, lower lemmas 5-veined;

upper florets pale to stramineous.
2n

= 20, 58, 70, 80.

Paspalum laeve
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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Discussion

Paspalum laeve is restricted to the eastern United States. It grows at the edges of forests and in disturbed areas.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 25, p. 572.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum
Sibling taxa
P. acuminatum, P. almum, P. bifidum, 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. 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
Synonyms P. longipilum, P. laeve var. pilosum, P. laeve var. circulare, P. laeve var. australe, P. circulare
Name authority Michx.
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