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. laeve   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. laeve

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

Paspalum laeve   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Paspalum laeve

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

Paspalum longipilum

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Paspalum laeve

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Paspalum longipilum

 

COMMON NAME:
 Field Crowngrass, Field Paspalum

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

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_pala10_001_lvd

        

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

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_pala10_003_lvd

        

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

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_pala10_008_lvd

        

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

Keith Bradley    kab_paspalum_laeve_7559

October    Lexington County    SC

Congaree Creek Heritage Preserve

Spikelets orbicular, 2.5-3mm broad, in two rows, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

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

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

INCLUDING Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
 Paspalum laeve

INCLUDING Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
 Paspalum longipilum

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Paspalum laeve

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Paspalum longipilum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4101

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: forest edges and disturbed areas. {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:
Summer/Fall

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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