T14S.R13E Pima County.AZ 050813 - Arizona Native Plant Society

Digitaria sanguinalis (C. Linnaeus) J.A. Scopoli: Hairy CrabgrassCOMMON NAMES: Abu Rokba (Arabic); Blutfennich (Bohemia); Bluthirse (German); Common Crab Grass (a namealso applied to other species); Common Crabgrass (a name also applied to other species); Crab Finger Grass; Crab Finger-grass;Crab Fingergrass; Crab Grass (a name also applied to other species); Crab-grass (a name also applied to other species); Crabgrass(a name also applied to other species); Crowfoot (a name also applied to other species); Digitaire Sanguine; Finger Grass (a namealso applied to other species); Finger-grass (a name also applied to other species); Fingergrass (a name also applied to otherspecies); Garrachuelo (Spanish); Hairy Crab Grass; Hairy Crabgrass (a name also applied to other species); Hairy Finger Grass (aname also applied to other species); Large Crab Grass; Large Crab-grass; Large Crabgrass (a name also applied to other species);Manne Terrestre (French); Mock Sandburr; Northern Crab Grass; Northern Crab-grass; Northern Crabgrass; Panic Sanguin(French); Pigeon Grass (a name also applied to other species, Hopkinton, Iowa); Polish Millet; Purple Crabgrass (a name alsoapplied to other species); Redhair Crab-grass; Redhair Crabgrass; Zacate Cangrejo (Spanish); Zacate Cangrejo Velludo(Spanish). DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial annual graminoid (spreading-decumbent culms 6 to 52 inches in height); floweringgenerally takes place between late June and late October (additional records: two for late May and two for mid-November).HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported from mountains; rocky mountainsides; rock walls; rockycanyons; sandy canyon bottoms; ridges; meadows; foothills; gravelly hills; hillsides; bouldery, rocky, rocky-sandy, sandy, sandyloamy,loamy, clayey and clayey-loamy slopes; amongst rocks; sandy, sandy-loamy and clayey-loamy flats; uplands; valleyfloors; valley bottoms; coastal dunes; along gravelly, gravelly-sandy and sandy roadsides; arroyos; draws; seeps; springs; alongstreams; within rocky and sandy streambeds; along creeks; along and in rocky creekbeds; along rivers; sandy riverbeds; alongand in sandy washes; within drainages; drainage ways; pools; sandy-loamy soils along ponds; saltwater marshes; swales; (sandyand silty) banks of streams, creeks, washes and drainages; edges of saltmarshes and depressions and lakes; sandy benches; rockyshelves; rocky and sandy bottomlands; sandy floodplains; seeps along canals; sandy edges of canals; along and in ditches; edgesof ditches; sandy riparian areas; waste places, and disturbed areas growing in wet, moist, damp and dry rocky, rocky-sandy,rocky-cobbly-sandy, gravelly, gravelly-sandy and sandy ground; sandy loam, clayey loam, silty loam and loam ground; gravellyclay and clay ground, and silty ground, occurring from sea level to 8,300 feet in elevation in the forest, woodland, scrub,grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecological formations. NOTES: EXOTIC Invasive Plant. Large Crabgrass is sometimesconfused with another exotic species, Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) a species of similar general appearance. Digitariasanguinalis is native to eastern and southern Europe; central and southern Asia, and northern Africa and islands in the NorthAtlantic Ocean. *5, 6, 15, 33 (Page 295), 43 (100609), 44 (110311), 46 (Page 132), 58, 63 (110311 - color presentation), 68, 85(110311 - color presentation), 89 (reported under Miscellaneous Introduced Species as being a long-lived annual herb), 101(color photograph), 124 (110311)*Distichlis spicata (C. Linnaeus) E.L. Greene: SaltgrassSYNONYMY: Distichlis spicata (C. Linnaeus) E.L. Greene var. stricta (J. Torrey) F. Lamson-Scribner; Distichlisstricta (J. Torrey) P.A. Rydberg. COMMON NAMES: Aira Calucibus Trivalvibus Triflorus; Alkali Grass (a name also appliedto other species and the genus Distichlis); Alkali-grass (a name also applied to other species and the genus Distichlis); AlkalineGrass (a name also applied to other species); Coast Marsh Spike-grass; Coastal Salt Grass; Coastal Saltgrass; Desert Salt Grass(Colorado); Desert Saltgrass (Colorado); Huizapole (Spanish); Inland Salt Grass; Inland Salt-grass; Inland Saltgrass; Interior SaltGrass; Interior Saltgrass; XoKásxK (Seri); Marsh Grass; Marsh Salt Grass; Marsh Spike Grass; Marsh Salt-grass; Marsh Spikegrass;Marsh Saltgrass; Marsh Spikegrass; Marsh-spike-grass; Peyisuksuta (“Tough Grass” or “Hard Grass”, Lakota); Salt Grass(a name also applied to other species and the genus Distichlis); Salt-grass (a name also applied to other species and the genusDistichlis); Saltgrass (a name also applied to other species and the genus Distichlis); Sea-shore Salt-grass; Sea-shore Saltgrass;Seashore Salt Grass; Seashore Saltgrass; Slender Spike Grass (a name also applied to other species); Spicate Saltgrass; SpikeGrass (Maine, a name also applied to other species and the genus Distichlis); Spiked Quaking Grass (a name also applied toother species); Spiked Salt Grass; Spiked Salt-grass; Spiked Saltgrass; Wire Grass (Nebraska, a name also applied to otherspecies); Wiregrass (Nebraska, a name also applied to other species); Zacate Espinudo (Spanish); Zacate Salado (Spanish).DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial graminoid (prostrate, decumbent and/or erect culms 4 inches to 2 feet in height); thefoliage may be blue-green, gray-green, green or yellow-green; the flowers are pale green or green, sometimes tinged reddishpurple,flowering generally takes place between late March and early October (additional records: two for late October and onefor late November). HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported from crevices in boulders; bouldery-sandy,rocky, sandy and silty-loamy canyon bottoms; shaley and sandy bluffs; rocky, shaley and shaley-sandy ridges; rocky-sandy,sandy-loamy, loamy and clayey-loamy meadows; foothills; shaley hills; hillsides; rocky, rocky-gravelly, rocky-sandy, gravelly,sandy, loamy and clayey slopes; alluvial fans; sand hills; sand dunes; shaley breaks; clay pans; steppes; sandy prairies; sandyplains; sandy and clayey flats; rocky, gravelly and sandy uplands; basins; clayey and silty-loamy valley floors; valley bottoms;coastal dunes; sandy coastal beaches; coastal tidal salt marshes; along cindery railroad right-of-ways; sandy roadbeds; gravellyand sandy roadcuts; along gravelly, gravelly-sandy, gravelly-clayey, sandy, clayey and silty roadsides; stony arroyos; bottoms ofarroyos; shaley-silty, clayey and silty draws; muddy bottoms of draws; gulches; sandy gullies; ravines; around and in alkaliseeps; in mud around springs; sandy soils along streams; along and in muddy, shaley, gravelly-clayey, sandy-silty-clayey andclayey streambeds; along and in creeks; in muddy and clayey creekbeds; along rivers; mucky-clayey, sandy, sandy-clayey andclayey riverbeds; along and in bouldery and clayey washes; along and in gravelly-sandy-clayey, clayey and clayey-loamydrainages; around pools; ponds; lakes; clayey lakebeds; within sandy-loamy and clayey playas; alkali peat bogs; ciénegas; sandyfreshwater and saltwater marshes; alkaline swamps; alkaline depressions; pozos in salt flats; clayey sloughs; alkaline swales;along (shaley, sandy and clayey) banks of draws, streams, creeks, creekbeds, rivers, washes, drainages, ponds, lakes and marshes;48