Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

  • Authority

    Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

  • Description

    Description - A low, extensively creeping perennial, with compressed wiry culms, narrow, usually short blades, and 3 to 5 slender arcuate-spreading spikes aggregate at the apex of the culms.

  • Common Names

    hierba de la Virgen