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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Paspalum fluitans FAMILY Poaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Paspalum from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Paspalum fluitans FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Paspalum repens var. fluitans

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Paspalum repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Paspalum fluitans

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-74-001:

Paspalum fluitans FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Paspalum fluitans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Paspalum repens

COMMON NAME:
Water Paspalum, Horsetail Crowngrass

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image of Paspalum fluitans, Water Paspalum, Horsetail Crowngrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_pafl5_002_lhd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_pafl5_004_lvd

Keith Bradley kab_paspalum_repens_78285

June Collier County FL

Mistletoe Swamp

Panicle branches extend beyond outermost spikelets & disarticulate at maturity, per Weakley's Flora.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Paspalum fluitans FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Paspalum fluitans FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Paspalum repens var. fluitans

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Paspalum repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Paspalum fluitans

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-74-001:
Paspalum fluitans FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Paspalum fluitans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Paspalum repens

4098

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: Mucky soils in swamp forests, moist riverbanks and bars, sloughs, sometimes forming floating mats, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal & low alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a panicle of 7-70 racemose branches

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950) p601

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