Syntherisma sanguinale (L.) Dulac
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Culms 8 dm. long or less, finally branched, prostrate at the base and rooting at the lower nodes. Lower leaf-sheaths densely papillose-hirsute; blades 2-8 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, erect or ascending, glabrous or more or less pubescent; racemes 2-9, 2-12 cm. long, erect or ascending, alternate, in pairs or whorls; spikelets 3-3.5 mm. long, about 0.8 mm. wide, lanceolate, very acute, in pairs; first scale small, glabrous, the second and third appressed-pubescent with long hairs, the second one 3-nerved, the third slightly exceeding the flowering scale, 7-nerved, the pubescence usually becoming widely spreading, the fourth one lanceolate, very acute, yellowish white at maturity.
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Distribution
Sandy places, roadsides and waste places. Great Bahama, Abaco, New Providence. Eleuthera. Long Island. Elbow Cay, Fortune Island, Acklin's Island, Inagua : temperate and tropical America. Native of the Old World. Referred by Hitchcock to Panicum Linkiunum Kth. Larger Crab-grass.
Inagua Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America|