OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Paspalum laeve var. circulare   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Paspalum laeve   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Paspalum laeve

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Paspalum laeve

SYNONYMOUS WITH Shinners & Mahler’s Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas (Diggs, Lipscomb, & O’Kennon, 1999)

Paspalum laeve var. circulare

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-74-013?:

Paspalum laeve   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Paspalum circulare

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Paspalum circulare

 

COMMON NAME:
Field Crowngrass, Field Paspalum


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image of Paspalum laeve var. circulare, Field Crowngrass, Field Paspalum

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_paci8_001_lvd

        

image of Paspalum laeve var. circulare, Field Crowngrass, Field Paspalum

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_paci8_002_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Paspalum laeve var. circulare   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Paspalum laeve   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Paspalum laeve

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Paspalum laeve

SYNONYMOUS WITH Shinners & Mahler’s Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas (Diggs, Lipscomb, & O’Kennon, 1999)
Paspalum laeve var. circulare

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-74-013?:
Paspalum laeve   FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Paspalum circulare

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4391

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: {need additional herbarium work to fully determine range and abundance of varieties}, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (?) (additional herbarium work needed to fully determine range and abundance of varieties)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal & low alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], with short rhizomes

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a panicle of 1-6 racemose branches, terminating in a spike

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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