Capriola dactylon (L.) Kuntze
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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 1-3 dm. tall, erect, from long creeping and branching stolons, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths glabrous or somewhat hairy, crowded at the bases of the culms and along the stolons; leaves 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, flat, scabrous above; spikes 4 or 5, digitate, 1-5 cm. long, the rachis flat; spikelets 2 mm. long; outer scales hispid on the keel, narrow, the first shorter than the second.
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Distribution
Waste and cultivated lands. New Providence. Eleuthera and Inagua : Bermuda : southern New York to Kansas, Florida and Texas ; warm and tropical regions of both the Old World and the New. Bermuda-grass.
Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| New York United States of America North America| Kansas United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America|