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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinochloa walteri   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Echinochloa walteri

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

Echinochloa walteri

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-73-003:

Echinochloa walteri   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Echinochloa walteri

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

Echinochloa walteri

 

COMMON NAME:
Swamp Barnyard-grass, Coast Cockspur-grass


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image of Echinochloa walteri, Swamp Barnyard-grass, Coast Cockspur-grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ecwa_001_lvd

        

image of Echinochloa walteri, Swamp Barnyard-grass, Coast Cockspur-grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_ecwa_003_lvd

        

image of Echinochloa walteri, Swamp Barnyard-grass, Coast Cockspur-grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_ecwa_005_lvd

        

image of Echinochloa walteri, Swamp Barnyard-grass, Coast Cockspur-grass

Keith Bradley    kab_e_walteri_1300

May    Miami-Dade County    FL

Panicle branches spikelike, spikelets congested on short secondary branches, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Echinochloa walteri, Swamp Barnyard-grass, Coast Cockspur-grass

Keith Bradley    kab_e_walteri_71748

August    Miami-Dade County    FL

Tip of the fertile lemma is abuptly pointed & doesn't enclose tip of palea, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Echinochloa walteri, Swamp Barnyard-grass, Coast Cockspur-grass

Keith Bradley    kab_ewalteri_71753

August    Miami-Dade County    FL

Fertile lemma hard, shiny and smooth (as in Paspalum, Panicum, Sacciolepis), per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinochloa walteri   FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Echinochloa walteri

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-73-003:
Echinochloa walteri   FAMILY Poaceae

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

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3942

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: marshes of many kinds, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain whitish
Grain

 

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