PLANTS Profile for Digitaria cognata (fall witchgrass)

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Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.
fall witchgrass

Symbol:

DICO6

Group:

Monocot

Family:

Poaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Graminoid

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N


Common Names:
	Carolina crabgrass

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Line Drawing of Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.

Leptoloma cognatum

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 124. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

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Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.

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Synonyms:
Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.

	DICOC	Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg. var. cognata		Carolina crabgrass
	LECO	Leptoloma cognatum (Schult.) Chase

Distribution:
Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.


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

Related Taxa:
Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.

View 338 genera in Poaceae, 68 species in Digitaria

Classification:
Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.

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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 cognata (Schult.) Pilg. – fall witchgrass

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.

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.

Pennsylvania:
fall witchgrass		Threatened

More Accounts and Images:
Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.

View species account 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 502059.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

Related Web Sites:
Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg.

IA-Grasses of Iowa

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

OK-Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery

WI-University of Wisconsin Freckmann Herbarium

Time Generated: 09/17/2008 08:35 AM MDT