Leersia lenticularis Michx.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Culms 5–15 dm; sheaths smooth or nearly so; ligule truncate, 1 mm; main blades 1–2 cm wide, glabrous or sometimes soft-hairy; panicle large, 1–2(–3) dm, freely branched, the slender branchlets spreading, each bearing 1–4 spike-like racemes 1–2 cm; spikelets short-pediceled, closely imbricate and appressed to each other, broadly elliptic to orbicular; lemmas 3.8–5.6 mm, more than half as wide, hispid-ciliate on the veins and keel; stamens 2; 2n=48. Swamps and streambanks on the coastal plain from se. Va. to Fla., and Tex., n. in the Mississippi Valley to Minn. and Wis.
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Common Names
catchfly-grass