Large Crabgrass; Digitaria sanguinalis
Family: Poaceae; Grass Family
Vegetative Characteristics:
Seedling: Sheaths and blades usually densely hairy, membranous ligule.
Stems: Prostrate, spreading, branched at the older nodes
Leaf:
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- Blade: usually hairy on both surfaces
- Ligule: truncate with uneven teeth or margin
- Sheath: Hairy, Closed
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Reproductive Characteristics:
Seed Head: composed of 4-6 branches each 4-18 cm long
Spikelets: 2-flowered; Subsessile to pedicelled
Glumes: First are minute and second are 1/2 length of spikelet and hairy.
Special Identifying Features:
⇒ Second glume 1/2 length of spikelet
- Long Hairs on Sheath
- Long Hairs Surrounding Ligule
- Ligule
- Seed
- Seedling
- Defined Hairs on Stems
- Mature Large Crabgrass
- Defined Hairs at Sheath
