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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leptochloa dubia   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Disakisperma dubium

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) A molecular phylogeny of Leptochloa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Chlorideae) (Peterson, 2012)

Disakisperma dubia

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

Leptochloa dubia

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

Leptochloa dubia

 

COMMON NAME:
Green Sprangletop


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image of Disakisperma dubium, Green Sprangletop

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_ledu_001_lhd

        

image of Disakisperma dubium, Green Sprangletop

Keith Bradley    kab_d_dubia_09848

April    Monroe County    FL

Panicle of spreading or ascending racemes, approximate or somewhat distant, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

image of Disakisperma dubium, Green Sprangletop

Keith Bradley    kab_d_dubia_09850

April    Monroe County    FL

image of Disakisperma dubium, Green Sprangletop

Keith Bradley    kab_d_dubia_09856

April    Monroe County    FL

Seedhead branches triangular in cross-section. Spikelets have 4-7 florets, per Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants.

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leptochloa dubia   FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) A molecular phylogeny of Leptochloa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Chlorideae) (Peterson, 2012)
Disakisperma dubia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Leptochloa dubia

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3926

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Coastal rock barrens (s. FL), rocky slopes, hammocks, disturbed areas (including as a waif at wool-combing mills and ballast sites), per Weakley's Flora

Native: south Florida, Southwest US, into Central & South America

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked, occasionally in basal rosettes

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Spikelets green or brown

Inflorescences terminal panicles of spikelike branches

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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