Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Dichanthelium aciculare
Dichanthelium aciculare (Desv. ex Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark
Needleleaf Rosette Grass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: DIACUSDA Native Status: L48 (N), PR (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Dichanthelium aciculare
Rosette Grass
Poaceae
Location: Mitchell Lake, Polder #2.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun; damp, clay soil, among other Poaceae.
Description: Tufted culms to 60 cm, unbranched. Sheaths pilose at throat & down margins. Blades flat, to 8 mm x 22 cm, pilose on both surfaces. Ligule hirsute. Panicle to 30 cm tall. Spikes to 9 cm, ascending. Spikelets 1.5x 2.5 mm.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 30, 1992
Specimen number: 430
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0643
Accession Date: Feb 22, 1994
Accession Number: 48
Annotations: SXFRB [=Panicum angustifolium]
Brachiaria fasciculata (SW. S.T. Blake
det. F. R. Waller 5/3/94