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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Urochloa ramosa   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Urochloa ramosa   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Urochloa ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Urochloa ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Panicum ramosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH -

Brachiaria ramosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Browntop Millet, Dixie Signalgrass


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image of Urochloa ramosa, Browntop Millet, Dixie Signalgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_para3_001_lhd

        

image of Urochloa ramosa, Browntop Millet, Dixie Signalgrass

JK Marlow    jkm150724_517

July    Pickens County    SC

Doodle Trail

image of Urochloa ramosa, Browntop Millet, Dixie Signalgrass

JK Marlow    jkm150724_528

July    Pickens County    SC

Doodle Trail

Has apparently been widely planted for wildlife food and erosion control in SE, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Urochloa ramosa, Browntop Millet, Dixie Signalgrass

JK Marlow    jkm150724_529

July    Pickens County    SC

Doodle Trail

Panicles of asending spikelike racemes along an angled axis, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

image of Urochloa ramosa, Browntop Millet, Dixie Signalgrass

JK Marlow    jkm150724_529b

July    Pickens County    SC

Doodle Trail

Spikelets borne singly in each row, 2-4mm long, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Urochloa ramosa, Browntop Millet, Dixie Signalgrass

Gill Newberry    gn09_u_ramosa_millet

September        

image of Urochloa ramosa, Browntop Millet, Dixie Signalgrass

Gill Newberry    gn09_urochoa_ramosa

September        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Urochloa ramosa   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Urochloa ramosa   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Urochloa ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Urochloa ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum ramosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Brachiaria ramosa

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3544

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: Disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Tropical Africa & Asia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Spikelets green, tawny or dull brown

Inflorescence a panicle of ascending spikelike racemes along an angled axis

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Grain

 

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