PLANTS Profile for Digitaria filiformis (slender crabgrass)

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Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler
slender crabgrass

Symbol:

DIFI

Group:

Monocot

Family:

Poaceae

Duration:

Annual
Perennial

Growth Habit:

Graminoid

Native Status:

L48

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Line Drawing of Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler

Digitaria laeviglumis

Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. 1950. Usage Requirements.

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Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler

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Synonyms:
Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler

	DILA13	Digitaria laeviglumis Fernald
	DILE12	Digitaria leucocoma (Nash) Urb.
	PAFI9	Panicum filiforme L.
	SYFI2	Syntherisma filiformis (L.) Nash

Distribution:
Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler


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USA (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WV)

Related Taxa:
Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler

View 342 genera in Poaceae, 68 species in Digitaria

Classification:
Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Commelinidae
Order	Cyperales
Family	Poaceae – Grass family
Genus	Digitaria Haller – crabgrass
Species	Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler – slender crabgrass

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Michigan:
slender finger-grass		Probably Extirpated
New York:
slender crabgrass		Threatened
Ohio:
slender finger-grass		Presumed Extirpated

More Accounts and Images:
Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler

View species account, photographs, and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

View species account, distribution map, and illustration from the Grass Manual on the Web.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 40608.

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

Time Generated: 05/25/2013 01:35 AM CDT