Cenchrus echinatus L.
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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 finally prostrate and rooting at the nodes, branched; leaf-sheaths loose; blades 1-4 dm. long, 5-16 mm. wide, smooth or rough, flat; spikes 3-12 cm. long, finally more or less exserted; involucres 20-50, containing 4-6 spikelets, green to purplish, villous at the base, the spines 34 mm. long, the bristles at the base numerous, slender, distinctly barbed for their whole length; spikelets 6-7 mm. long.
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Distribution
Sandy soil, waste places and roadsides. Frozen Cay, New Providence, Eleuthera. Watling*s Island, Fortune Island, Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda ; North Carolina to Florida and Texas ; West Indies ; tropical continental America.
Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| North Carolina United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| West Indies|