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|accepted_name=Leersia oryzoides
|accepted_authority=(L.) Sw.
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|common_names=Rice cutgrass;Leersie faux-riz
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae;Poaceae tribe Oryzeae;Leersia;Leersia oryzoides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Oryzeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leersia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leersia oryzoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 44
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous, rhizomes elongate, scaly, scales not imbricate. <b>Culms</b> 35-150 cm tall, 1-3 mm thick, branching, decumbent, sprawling, rooting at the nodes, terminal portions erect. <b>Sheaths</b> scabrous; ligules 0.5-1 mm; blades 7-30 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, spreading to slightly ascending, both surfaces usually scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 10-30 cm, terminal, also axillary, exserted or enclosed at maturity, spreading on exserted panicles, usually 2 or more branches at the lowest nodes, 1 at the upper nodes; branches 4-10 cm, the lower 1/3 naked, spikelets imbricate. <b>Spikelets</b> (4)4.2-6.5 mm long, 1.3-1.7 mm wide, elliptic. <b>Lemmas</b> and paleas usually ciliate on the keels and margins, glabrous or puberulent elsewhere; anthers 3, 1.5-2(3) mm in chasmogamous spikelets, 0.4-0.7 mm in cleistogamous spikelets. <b>Caryopses</b> 2-3.5 mm, asymmetrically pyriform to obovoid, whitish to dark brown. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;D.C;Wis.;W.Va.;Md.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.H.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Nev.;Mass.;Maine;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Idaho;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Ky.;Oreg.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.
|discussion=<p><i>Leersia oryzoides</i> grows in wet, heavy, clay or sandy soils, and is often aquatic. It is found across most of southern Canada, extending south throughout the contiguous United States into northern Mexico, and flowers from July to October. It has also become established in Europe and Asia.</p>
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|authority=(L.) Sw.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;D.C;Wis.;W.Va.;Md.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.H.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Nev.;Mass.;Maine;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Idaho;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Ky.;Oreg.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Oryzeae
|genus=Leersia
|species=Leersia oryzoides
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