NameThatPlant.net: Axonopus furcatus

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

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

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Axonopus from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Axonopus furcatus FAMILY Poaceae

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

Axonopus furcatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-77-002:

Axonopus furcatus FAMILY Poaceae

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

Axonopus furcatus

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

Axonopus furcatus

(?) -

Paspalum furcatum

COMMON NAME:
Big Carpetgrass

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image of Axonopus furcatus, Big Carpetgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_anfu2_001_lvd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_axfu_001_lhd

Keith Bradley kab_a_furcatus_70465

October Polk County FL

Spikelets with lower lemmas adjacent to the branch axes (lower glumes absent), per Weakley's Flora.

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Axonopus furcatus FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Axonopus furcatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-77-002:
Axonopus furcatus FAMILY Poaceae

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

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

(?) -
Paspalum furcatum

3860

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: maritime forests, other sandy forests, bottomlands, roadsides, calcareous wet meadows, lawns, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Coastal Plain & Piedmont of the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall

Inflorescence of 1-sided, spikelike primary branches

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Grain yellowish/ Grayish
Grain

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

Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950) p596

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