Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Digitaria cognata
Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.
Carolina Crabgrass, Fall Witchgrass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: DICO6USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Digitaria cognata ssp. cognata
Fall Witch Grass
Poaceae
Location: 14511 Star Cross Trail, Helotes.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Near bottom of west facing hill. Soil very poor; rocky, stoney with little humus; full sun.
Description: Open panicles of spikelets on long, slender, spreading branches; stems 30-90 cm tall, branched at base and midstem; blades thin, short, flat; glumes and lemmas awnless. Spikelets not villous.
County: Bexar
Collector: Mike Fox
Collection Date: Nov 4, 1994
Specimen number: 131
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0979
Accession Date: Nov 23, 1994
Accession Number: 77
Annotations: S-FXB (In fruit)