Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

  • Authority

    Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

  • Description

    Species Description - Culms widely spreading, flattened, rooting at the nodes; sheaths glabrous; blades to 8 mm wide, papillose-ciliate, especially at base; spikes 2–5, each 2–5 cm; second glume 2 mm, its awn 2–3 mm, often flexuous, usually divergent forward and over the adjacent spikelet; lemmas 2–5, 3 mm; 2n=20, 24, 36, 40, 48. Open ground, waste places, and fields; native of the Old World tropics, now well established as a weed in trop. Amer. and abundant in se. U.S., occasionally adventive in our range, n. to Me. and Ill.

  • Common Names

    crowfoot-grass