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Paspalum setaceum - (image 1 of 4)

Taxonomy

Family: Poaceae

Habitat

Dry to moist, open or slightly wooded areas, typically in sandy soil.

Associates

Distribution

NH to FL and the West Indies, west to MN, NE, CO, and AZ.

Morphology

Tufted perennial to 1 m, from short, knotty rhizomes; culms prostrate or erect; leaves 3-20 mm wide; racemes 1-4; spikelets usually paired, 1.4-2.5 mm, 3/4 to fully as wide, variously elliptic-obovate to obovate or suborbicular, glabrous or finely villosulous or with minute, capitate hairs, often brown-dotted; glume 2-veined or obscurely 3-veined; sterile lemma 2-3-veined, the midvein developed or not.

Notes

Flowers mid July to August.

Wetland indicator: FACU

The most common member of this genus.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.

The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

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