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Twospike crabgrass

Digitaria pauciflora

Also called Florida Pineland Crabgrass

Twospike crabgrass
Photo: Chase, Agnes; Hitchcock, A. S., Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass, Perennial
Native range
Florida
Climate
subtropical

About

Digitaria pauciflora is a species of grass known by the common names twospike crabgrass, Florida pineland crabgrass, Everglades grass, few-flowered fingergrass, and particular grass. It is endemic to Florida in the United States, where it is found only in the Everglades.

This perennial grass grows up to a meter tall, growing in clumps up to a meter wide. The densely hairy leaves are up to 12 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a panicle with 2 or 3 branches up to 11 centimeters long.

Other Digitaria plants

African couchgrass · Cotton Panic Grass · Arizona cottontop · Southern crabgrass · Fall witchgrass · Raishan · Crabgrass · Digitgrass · Fonio · Slender crabgrass · Florida crabgrass · Longleaf crabgrass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Digitaria pauciflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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