Paspalum praecox |
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early paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; shortly rhizomatous. |
Culms | 5-160 cm, erect, not rooting at the lower nodes; nodes glabrous. |
Sheaths | densely pubescent, occasionally glabrous; ligules 1-2.2 mm; blades to 55 cm long, 2.2-8.3 mm wide, conduplicate (occasionally flat), glabrous below, pubescent above. |
Panicles | terminal, with 2-10 racemosely arranged branches; branches 0.8-10.3 cm, divergent to spreading, often arcuate, terminating in a spikelet; branch axes 0.8-2 mm wide, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous. |
Spikelets | 2.1-3.1 mm long, 2-2.8 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to divergent from the branch axes, orbicular to suborbicular, stramineous. |
Caryopses | 1.9-2.1 mm, brown. |
Lower | glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas glabrous, 3-veined, margins entire; upper florets white to light yellow. |
2n | = 20, 40. |
Paspalum praecox |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; VA
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Discussion | Paspalum praecox grows in pitcher plant bogs, wet pine flatwoods, wet savannahs, prairies, and wet streamhead ecotones. It is restricted to the United States, growing predominantly on the southeastern coastal plain. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 597. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. praecox var. curtisianum, P. lentiferum |
Name authority | Walter |
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