NameThatPlant.net: Digitaria violascens

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Digitaria violascens FAMILY Poaceae Go to FSUS key

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Digitaria violascens FAMILY Poaceae

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

Digitaria violascens

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

Digitaria violascens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Digitaria violascens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-75-002b:

Digitaria ischaemum var. violascens FAMILY Poaceae

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

Digitaria violascens

COMMON NAME:
violet crabgrass

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image of Digitaria violascens, violet crabgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_divi2_001_lhd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Digitaria violascens FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Digitaria violascens FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Digitaria violascens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Digitaria violascens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-75-002b:
Digitaria ischaemum var. violascens FAMILY Poaceae

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

4306

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: Sandy fields, roadsides, and woodland borders, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Asia

Common in GA & SC Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

map
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

Inflorescence composed of 2-6 ascending spikelike racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain

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

Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950) p576

"Our Great-Aunt Narcissa ... knew the names of all the wild flowers and she taught the names of them all to us — the small blue anemone that bloomed in ravines in February, the first of our blossoms and the purest blue, the flower of faith, of new hope; the bloodroot, the May apple, the wild yellow azalea, the corpse flower, the trailing arbutus, the purple gentian — the last blossoms of the autumn, struggling to perfection in the last minutes of existence." — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton

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