Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Learn more about Crowfoot Grass from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-52-001:
Dactyloctenium aegyptium FAMILY Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
COMMON NAME:
Crowfoot Grass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_daae_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_daae_002_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_d_aegyptium_71461
August Miami-Dade County FL
Rachis end projects in a point beyond spikelets, which lie along one side, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).
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Keith Bradley kab_d_aegyptium_71487
August Miami-Dade County FL
Inflorescence digitate, racemes 2-9, often radiating horizontally, per Flora of China.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-52-001:
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
3918
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual
Habitat: beach dunes, coastal strands, and other coastal areas, lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Old World tropics
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Inflorescence a spike
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Utricle
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