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|accepted_name=Paspalum bifidum
|accepted_authority=(Bertol.) Nash
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|common_names=Pitchfork paspalum
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum bifidum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paspalum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paspalum bifidum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 586
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 60-140 cm, erect; nodes glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> pubescent; ligules 2-4 mm; blades to 37 cm long, 2.2-11 mm wide, flat. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with 2-5 racemosely arranged branches; branches 3.7-13 cm, divergent to erect; branch axes 0.2-0.8 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. <b>Spikelets</b> 3.1-4 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, paired, not imbricate, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to obovate, yellow-brown. <b>Lower</b> glumes present or absent; upper glumes glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally, (6)7-veined, margins entire; lower lemmas glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally, lacking ribs over the veins, 5-veined, margins entire; upper florets white. <b>Caryopses</b> 2.6-2.9 mm, purple. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Va.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Ga.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum bifidum</i> is restricted to the southeastern United States. It grows at the edges of forests in longleaf pine-oak-grass ecosystems, usually in dry to mesic loamy sandy soils. It grows vigorously following fire.</p>
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|authority=(Bertol.) Nash
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Va.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Ga.;Fla.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum bifidum
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