Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze

  • Description

    Species Description - Widely creeping, sometimes 5 m. long, glabrous, rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-sheaths keeled, flattened, the blade linear, 3-15 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, blunt and rounded at the apex; spikelets about 6 mm. long in spikes 4-13 cm. long.

  • Distribution

    Waste places and roadsides, North Bimini, Great Bahama, Abaco, Andros, New Providence, and Fortune Island : Bermuda : South Carolina to Florida and Texas ; West Indies and tropical continental America. Running Crab-grass.

    Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| South Carolina United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| West Indies|