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
Urochloa fusca
Browntop Signalgrass
Poaceae
Location: N side of Canyon Lake at 88 Military Drive, on Canyon Lake Island.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Plentiful on dry rocky hillsides.
Description: Perennial bunch grass with stems 30 cm tall; leaves pilose near base; spikelets obtuse in pairs; first glume absent; spikelet not fringed with long hairs. Leaves pilose near base.
County: Comal
Collector: Mary Beth White
Collection Date: Oct 2, 1994
Specimen number: 217
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0932
Accession Date: Oct 26, 1994
Accession Number: 72
Annotations: SXFXC (In fruit)
Brachiaria fasciculata (Swartz) S.T. Blake (=Panicum fasciculatum Swartz) det. Floyd R. Waller. 1995.