NameThatPlant.net: Paspalum laeve var. laeve

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Paspalum laeve var. laeve FAMILY Poaceae NEW! Click to go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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

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, 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

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.

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, 1938)
Paspalum laeve

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

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)

Habitat: forest edges and disturbed areas. {need additional herbarium work to fully determine range and abundance of varieties}, 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

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