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Digitaria cognata
Also called Carolina Crabgrass, Fall Witch Grass, Diffuse Crabgrass, Fall Crabgrass
Fall witchgrass is a perennial wild grass native to eastern and central North America, grown mainly as a forage and wildlife plant rather than a garden ornamental. It is hardy and tolerates poor, shallow soils.
Digitaria cognata is a species of grass known by the common names fall witchgrass, Carolina crabgrass, and mountain hairgrass.
This grass provides graze for livestock and wild ungulates, and birds eat the seeds.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Digitaria cognata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
