Paspalum boscianum
Common name: bull crowngrass[1], bull paspalum[2]
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| Photo by Guy Anglin hosted at the Atlas of Florida Plants | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class: | Liliopsida – Monocotyledons |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Paspalum |
| Species: | P. boscianum |
| Binomial name | |
| Paspalum boscianum Fluegge | |
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| Natural range of Paspalum boscianum from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
Contents
Taxonomic Notes
Synonyms: none.[3]
Varieties: none.[3]
Description
P. boscianum is a coarse annual graminoid of the Poaceae family native to North America and Puerto Rico.[1] Its geniculate culms 3-9 dm tall with glabrous nodes and internodes. The blades are 25 cm long, 4-11 mm wide, and glabrous, with scarious margins. Ligules are 1-2 mm long. The axes of panicle branches broadly winged and the wings about as wide as the central portion. The plant has 2-11 racemes that are racemose, ascending, and 1.5-9 cm long. The suborbicular spikelets grow in 4 rows, reaching 2-1.2 mm broad.[4]
Distribution
P. boscianum ranges from Maryland to Kentucky, and Texas, south through tropical America.[4]
Ecology
Habitat
P. boscianum proliferates in marshes, cypress domes, low fields, and ditches.[2] Specimens have been collected from drying loamy sands of secondary woods, burned pine-oak woodland, pond in pine barrens, dried pond bottom, stream bank, ditch bordering savanna, swale in slashpine, coastal hammock pond, shore of farm pond, swampy woods, and cypress pond.[5]
Phenology
This species flowers from July through October.[3]
Fire ecology
Populations of Paspalum boscianum have been known to persist through repeated annual burning.[6]
Conservation, cultivation, and restoration
P. boscianum is listed as a species of special concern by the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission.[1]
Cultural use
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References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 USDA Plant Database https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PABO3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Weakley, A.S. 2015. Flora of the southern and mid-atlantic states. Working Draft of 21 May 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Radford, A. E., Ahles, H. E., & Bell, C. R. (1968). Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- ↑ URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, A.H. Curtiss, R.K. Godfrey, R.A. Pursell, R.Kral, S. Mcdaniel, Andre Clewell, R.A. Norris, R. Komarek, Richard R. Clinebell II. States and counties: Florida (Leon, Baker, Jackson, Gadsden, Calhoun, Palm Beach, Franklin, Gulf, Gadsden, Jackson, Santa Rosa, Hernando, Escambia, Madison, Duval, Wakulla) Georgia (Thomas, Seminole)
- ↑ Platt, W.J., R. Carter, G. Nelson, W. Baker, S. Hermann, J. Kane, L. Anderson, M. Smith, K. Robertson. 2021. Unpublished species list of Wade Tract old-growth longleaf pine savanna, Thomasville, Georgia.
