Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Eriochloa punctata
Eriochloa punctata (L.) Desv. ex Ham.
Louisiana Cupgrass, Punctate Cupgrass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: ERPU4USDA Native Status: L48 (N), HI (I), PR (N), VI (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Eriochloa punctata
Louisiana Cupgrass
Poaceae
Location: W side of Holbrook Rd, 200 m N of Rittiman Rd, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: In mud of broad drain into creek. Full sun. Several dense clumps.
Description: Perennial w/slender, branched culms, to 75 cm tall, from stolons. Sheaths shorter than internodes w/few hairs on upper margin & throat. Ligules minute. Panicles contracted, interrupted, 15+ cm long; branches appressed or slightly spreading. Pedicels shorter than spikelets, glumes rounded, the first rudimentary/absent, second to .5 mm long. Lemma 3-nerved, to 2.5 mm, short awns.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 24, 1994
Specimen number: 611
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0897
Accession Date: Aug 23, 1994
Accession Number: 66
Annotations: SXFRB (In fruit)
Echinochloa crus-pavonis (H.B.K.) var, macera (Wiedand) Gould def. Floyd R. Waller 20 Oct 1994