Paspalum urvillei |
Paspalum repens |
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Vasey grass, Vasey's grass |
water paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; cespitose, with a knotty base composed of very short (less than 1 cm) rhizomes. | Plants annual; aquatic, floating or rhizomatous. |
Culms | 50-220 cm, erect; nodes glabrous or pubescent. |
4-55 cm, erect; nodes 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 1-4 mm; blades 10-40 cm long, 8-22 mm wide, flat, glabrous or sparsely 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 (7)20-70 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.2-9.5 cm, diverging to spreading, occasionally arcuate, disarticulating at maturity; branch axes 0.7-1.5 mm wide, broadly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, extending beyond the distal 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). |
1.1-1.9 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic, pubescent, white. |
Caryopses | 1.2-1.7 mm, white. |
0.8-0.9 mm, translucent, white. |
Lower | glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas 3-veined, margins pilose; upper florets stramineous. |
glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas veinless; upper florets white. |
2n | = 40. |
= 20. |
Paspalum urvillei |
Paspalum repens |
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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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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 repens is a native species that grows along the edges of lakes, streams, and roadside ditches in the southeastern United States. Its range extends through tropical America to Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25. | FNA vol. 25, p. 571. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. repens var. fluitans, P. fluitans | |
Name authority | Steud. | P.J. Bergius |
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