Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Phalaris angusta
Phalaris angusta Nees ex Trin.
Timothy Canarygrass, Timothy Canary Grass, Narrow Canarygrass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: PHAN2USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Phalaris angusta
Timothy Canarygrass
Poaceae
Location: S side of Loop 410 & just W of Harry Wurzbach Rd.--San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: On steep, south facing, right of way among Lupinus and Poaceae.
Description: Annual w/culms 60-150 cm tall. Herbage glabrous. Ligules broad, rounded, whitish, 3-5 mm long. Blades flat, to 18 cm long x 5-12 cm broad. Panicle 6-15 cm long x 8-10 mm thick. Glumes 3.5-4 mm long. Keel scabrous, narrowly winged toward apex. Lemma of perfect floret thick, shiny, ovate-attenuate.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 10, 1990
Specimen number: 363
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0569
Accession Date: Nov 17, 1993
Accession Number: 43
Annotations: SXFRB