4101

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (?) (additional herbarium work needed to fully determine range and abundance of varieties)

Look for it in forest edges and disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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

FRUIT:
Summer

 

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

• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p242
• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p615
• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p618

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Paspalum laeve var. laeve   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Paspalum laeve   FAMILY Poaceae

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)
Paspalum laeve

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