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Digitaria sanguinalis
hairy crabgrass
Specimens
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Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Lawns, gardens, wastelots, and other disturbed areas.

Flowers: July-October

Origin: Introduced from Eurasia

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Wind

Description:
General:

Freely branching annual, often prostrate to ascending and rooting at the lower nodes, the culms hollow, up to 3 dm. tall.

Leaves:

Sheaths open, with stiff hairs 2-3 mm. long; ligules truncate to obtuse, 1.5-2 mm. long; blades flat, 4-6 mm. broad, the margins turning upward on the ligule as slight ridges.

Flowers:

Inflorescence of several racemes 5-12 mm. long, digitate in 2 or 3 whorls; articulate blow the glumes; spikelets 2-flowered, the lower sterile, paired on one side of a triangular rachis; first glume about 0.5 mm. long, the second about 2 mm. long; sterile lemma and fertile lemma each about 3 mm. long, appressed-hairy, the lateral nerves prominent; stamens 3.

Accepted Name:
Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.
Publication: Fl. Carniol. (ed. 2) 1: 52. 1771. 1771.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
Panicum sanguinale L.
Syntherisma sanguinalis (L.) Dulac
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Digitaria sanguinalis in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Digitaria sanguinalis checklist entry

OregonFlora: Digitaria sanguinalis information

E-Flora BC: Digitaria sanguinalis atlas page

CalPhotos: Digitaria sanguinalis photos

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