Paspalum urvillei |
Paspalum laeve |
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Vasey grass, Vasey's grass |
field beadgrass, field paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; cespitose, with a knotty base composed of very short (less than 1 cm) rhizomes. | Plants perennial; shortly rhizomatous. |
Culms | 50-220 cm, erect; nodes glabrous or pubescent. |
40-120 cm, erect; nodes glabrous or pubescent. |
Sheaths | glabrous or pubescent; ligules 1-4(7.7) mm; blades 12-60 cm long, 2-12 mm wide, flat, mostly glabrous, a few long hairs near the base of the adaxial surface. |
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 (4)10-30 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.2-11.5 cm, divergent; branch axes 0.5-1.1 mm wide, winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. |
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 | 1.8-2.8 mm long, 1.1-1.5 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to slightly obovate, stramineous (rarely purple). |
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 | 1.2-1.7 mm, white. |
about 2 mm, white to yellow-brown. |
Lower | glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas 3-veined, margins pilose; upper florets stramineous. |
glumes absent; upper glumes 3-veined, lower lemmas 5-veined; upper florets pale to stramineous. |
2n | = 40. |
= 20, 58, 70, 80. |
Paspalum urvillei |
Paspalum laeve |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; FL; GA; KS; KY; LA; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; HI; PR
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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 urvillei has been introduced to the United States from South America. In the Flora region it grows in disturbed, moist to wet areas, primarily in the southeastern United States. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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. | FNA vol. 25, p. 572. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. longipilum, P. laeve var. pilosum, P. laeve var. circulare, P. laeve var. australe, P. circulare | |
Name authority | Steud. | Michx. |
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