Paspalum scabrum Scribn.

• 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

  Paspalum scabrum Scribn.

• Description

  Description - A straggling annual, very scabrous throughout, with elongate, divergently branching, sometimes vinous-purple culms, clambering over shrubs, thin flat scabrous-hispid blades 5 to 10 cm. long and 10 to 18 mm. wide, tapering to both ends, and pale panicles 12 to 20 cm. long of numerous subverticillate spreading racemes 1.5 to 5 cm. long, the rachis acuminate, the white spikelets about 1.8 mm. long.

• Common Names

  Waterleaf Family