Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Chloris ×subdolichostachya
Chloris ×subdolichostachya Müll. Berol. (pro sp.)
Shortspike Windmillgrass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: CHSU3USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Chloris × subdolichostachya
Shortspike Windmill Grass
Poaceae
Location: 500 m E of Harry Wurzbach Dr & on edge of sidewalk on N side of S Oakwell Pkt--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun, in level, alluvial soil. Among various Poaceae. Many, scattered.
Description: 30+ cm, erect annual, tufted. Sometimes decumbent & stoloniferous. Blades flat, to 30 cm long/1.5 cm wide. Panicles w/4-20 more/less digitate branches, 5-10 cm long. Spikelets tawny, imbricate, about 10/cm of the rachis. Sterile florets-, awned. Lemma w/pubesence & awned, 3+ mm long.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Oct 10, 1994
Specimen number: 694
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0990
Accession Date: Jan 24, 1995
Accession Number: 78
Annotations: SXFRB Chloris cucullata x verticillata-Chloris subdolichostachya Muller.
det. Floyd R. Waller 1995
(In fruit)