Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Digitaria texana
Digitaria texana Hitchc.
Texas Crabgrass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: DITEUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Digitaria texana
Texas Crabgrass, Texas Fingergrass
Poaceae
Location: Nelson Farm, 3 km East of IH-37 in extreme south Bexar County.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Level, open pasture, in deep sand.
Description: Decumbent perennial, rooting at nodes, to 55+ cm tall. Shrubs villous. Ligules thin membraneous, 3 mm long. Infloresence branches 4-5, ascending, scattered, not digitate or verticelled, 10-12 cm long. Spikelets 3 mm long, their rachis angled; not winged. First glume absent. Caryopses ovate.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Oct 19, 1990
Specimen number: 450
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0659
Accession Date: Feb 22, 1994
Accession Number: 48
Annotations: SXFRB
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koel.
det. F. R. Waller 5/3/94