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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, 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!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Field Crowngrass from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

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

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

COMMON NAME:
Field Crowngrass, Field Paspalum

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

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

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

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.