Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Digitaria insularis
Digitaria insularis (L.) Mez ex Ekman
Sourgrass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: DIIN2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), HI (I), PR (N), VI (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Digitaria insularis
Sourgrass
Poaceae
Location: 85 Campden Circle--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Adventitious in moist, disturbed alkaline soil. Half-day sun. Scattered but common.
Description: Perennial with stift culms 80+ cm tall, rooting at lower nodes. Lower sheaths strigose. Blades elongate, to 1 cm wide. Panicle 20+ cm tall, lower branches appressed to central axis. Spikelets 3.5-4.5 mm long. First glume minute, second & lemma of lower floret shaggy-hirsute.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Sep 13, 1992
Specimen number: 488
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0730
Accession Date: Apr 26, 1994
Accession Number: 53
Annotations: SXFRB [=Trichachine nutans]
(In fruit)
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koel.
det. Floyd R. Waller 20 Oct 1994