Flora of North America species comparison

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Polypogon australis

Chilean beard grass, Chilean rabbit's-foot grass
Habit Plants perennial.
Culms

20-100 cm.
Sheaths

smooth to scabridulous;

ligules 1-3(4) mm, rounded to broadly acute, erose;

blades 13-17 cm long, 5-7 mm wide, scabrous.
Panicles

8-15 cm, lobed or interrupted, usually purplish;

pedicels absent or vestigial;

stipes 0.3-0.5 mm.
Glumes

1.5-3 mm, smooth to echinate, margins ciliate, apices acute to truncate, unlobed or lobed, lobes to 0.1 mm, awned, awns (3)4-6 mm, flexuous;

lemmas 1-1.3 mm, awned, awns 2-3.5 mm, flexuous;

paleas from shorter than to subequal to the lemmas;

anthers 0.3-0.5 mm.
2n

= unknown.

Polypogon australis
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; WA
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Discussion

Polypogon australis is native to South America. It has become established in western North America, where it grows alongside ditches and streams. The records from Washington and Oregon are from ballast dumps; it is not known from recent collections in those states.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 24, p. 665.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Poeae > Polypogon
Sibling taxa
P. elongatus, P. fugax, P. imberbis, P. interruptus, P. maritimus, P. monspeliensis, P. viridis
Name authority Brongn.
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