Paspalum virgatum L.

• 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 virgatum L.

• Description

  Description - A robust erect perennial growing in large clumps 1.5 to 2 meters tall, the lower sheaths nodulose in drying; blades commonly 50 cm. long or more, 1 to 2 cm. wide, flat, the margins very scabrous ; racemes several to many, 5 to 12 cm. long, forming a panicle 20 to 40 cm. long; spikelets in pairs, crowded, grayish, becoming rusty brown at maturity, obovate, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, silky-hairy around the margin.