2247

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Native: western North America

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it in alluvial swamps, river shores and bars, depression ponds, impoundments, interdune swales, low fields, beaver impoundments, other moist to wet disturbed habitats, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain whitish
Grain

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p712?

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-73-002?:
Echinochloa crusgalli   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinochloa microstachya

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Echinochloa crus-galli ssp. crus-galli