Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Urochloa fusca
Urochloa fusca (Sw.) B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin
Browntop Signalgrass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: URFU2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), PR (N), VI (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Bracharia fasciculata
Browntop Signalgrass
Poaceae
Location: Nelson Farm 3 km E of IH-37 in extreme south of Bexar County.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Open, level pasture, sandy soil. Among many mixed Poaceae.
Description: Tufted annual from fibrous roots to 4 cm long. Culms 60 cm tall, erect. Internodes to 11 cm, appressed pubescent. Leaves flat, to 1x13 cm, tapering gradually. Infloresence a panicle to 12-15 cm long. Branches (8+), erect to ascending, to 5 cm long. Spikelets broadly rounded 2-2.5 mm long, bronze-brown. Second glume strongly veined and reticulate.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Oct 19, 1990
Specimen number: 451
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0661
Accession Date: Mar 22, 1994
Accession Number: 49
Annotations: SXFRB [=Panicum fasciculatum]