NameThatPlant.net: Sacciolepis indica

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

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

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

Learn more about Indian Cupscale from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sacciolepis indica FAMILY Poaceae

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

Sacciolepis indica

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

Sacciolepis indica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-80-002:

Sacciolepis indica FAMILY Poaceae

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

Sacciolepis indica

COMMON NAME:
Indian Cupscale

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sacciolepis indica FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Sacciolepis indica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-80-002:
Sacciolepis indica FAMILY Poaceae

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

4063

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: Low fields, ditches, disturbed wetlands, moist pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: India

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, rare in NC

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate, 2-ranked

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

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a panicle or raceme

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Grain yellowish

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

“To learn how to observe and how to distinguish things correctly, is the greater part of education, and is that in which people otherwise well educated are apt to be surprisingly deficient. Natural objects, everywhere present and endless in variety, afford the best field for practice; and the study when young, first of Botany, and afterwards of other Natural Sciences, as they are called, is the best training that can be in these respects. This study ought to begin even before the study of language. For to distinguish things scientifically (that is, carefully and accurately) is simpler than to distinguish ideas. And in Natural History the learner is gradually led from the observation of things, up to the study of ideas or the relations of things.” — Asa Gray, in How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany

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