Monographs Details:
Authority:
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
Family:
Poaceae
Poaceae
Description:
Description - Spikelets 1 to 4 together, subtended and surrounded by a spiny bur formed of adnate sterile branches, the burs subsessile along a common axis, falling with the spikelets and permanently inclosing them ; spikelets acuminate, the first glume sometimes obsolete.
Description - Spikelets 1 to 4 together, subtended and surrounded by a spiny bur formed of adnate sterile branches, the burs subsessile along a common axis, falling with the spikelets and permanently inclosing them ; spikelets acuminate, the first glume sometimes obsolete.
Common Names:
sandbur
sandbur