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Axonopus furcatus

Axonopus furcatus (Flueggé) Hitchc.  
Family: Poaceae
Big Carpet Grass, more...Big Carpetgrass
[Paspalum digitaria, morePaspalum furcatum Flüggé, Paspalum furcatum var. villosum (Vasey) Vasey, Paspalum michauxianum var. villosum Vasey, Paspalum obtusatus Nees ex Döll, Paspalum paspalodes var. villosum (Vasey) Scribn. & C.R. Ball]
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Mary E. Barkworth. Flora of North America

Plants stoloniferous. Culms 30-100 cm; nodes glabrous or pubescent. Sheaths compressed, glabrous or sparsely to densely pilose, hairs appressed; ligules 0.3-1 mm; blades 3-25 cm long, 2-15 mm wide, margins often with papillose-based hairs near the base, scabrous distally. Panicles terminal and axillary, with 2(-4) divergent branches; branches 4-15 cm. Spikelets 3.5-5.5 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, ovoid-ellipsoid, acuminate. Upper glumes glabrous, 5-7-veined; lower lemmas 5-7-veined, glabrous or sparsely pilose over the veins; upper lemmas and paleas 2.5-3.2 mm, light yellow, obtuse. Caryopses 1.8-2.2 mm, obovate, yellow. 2n = unknown.

Axonopus furcatus is endemic to the southeastern United States. It grows in moist pine barrens, marshes, river banks, wet ditches, pond margins, and other such damp areas.

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Stoloniferous; culms erect or decumbent at base, compressed, 4-8 dm; lvs to 10 mm wide; racemes 2, divaricate, 5-10 cm, rarely with a third just below, often with another from the uppermost sheath; spikelets 4-5 mm, glabrous, the midvein of the sterile lemma obscure, the other veins approximate in 2 submarginal pairs; fertile lemma 2.5-3 mm; 2n=40. Damp or wet soil of the coastal plain; se. Va. to Fla., Tex., and Ark.; reported from Md. (Anastrophus f.)

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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