Digital Herbaria

Specimen & Label Data

Chloris ciliata

Fringed Chloris

Poaceae

Location: John James Park, San Antonio. 45 m S of gate,on creek side of parking lot.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Full sun. Level, alkaline, alluvial soil. Among a variety of Poaceae.

Description: Tufted perennial, 60 cm tall. Sheaths glabrous. Blades long acuminate, to 25 cm long, 5 mm wide. Panicles-5, digitate, 5-6 cm long. Spikelets brown, closely inserted (10/cm) on the rachis. Glumes laneolate, glabrous except for scabrous (fringed) margins. Upper/lower lemma awned to about 1 mm.

County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 21, 1991
Specimen number: 458

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0667
Accession Date: Mar 22, 1994
Accession Number: 49

Annotations: SXFRB