View source for Paspalum praecox

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|accepted_name=Paspalum praecox
|accepted_authority=Walter
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|common_names=Early paspalum
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paspalum praecox var. curtisianum
|authority=unknown
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|name=Paspalum lentiferum
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum praecox
|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 praecox]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 597
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; shortly rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 5-160 cm, erect, not rooting at the lower nodes; nodes glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> densely pubescent, occasionally glabrous; ligules 1-2.2 mm; blades to 55 cm long, 2.2-8.3 mm wide, conduplicate (occasionally flat), glabrous below, pubescent above. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with 2-10 racemosely arranged branches; branches 0.8-10.3 cm, divergent to spreading, often arcuate, terminating in a spikelet; branch axes 0.8-2 mm wide, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.1-3.1 mm long, 2-2.8 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to divergent from the branch axes, orbicular to suborbicular, stramineous. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas glabrous, 3-veined, margins entire; upper florets white to light yellow. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.9-2.1 mm, brown. <b>2n</b> = 20, 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Va.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum praecox</i> grows in pitcher plant bogs, wet pine flatwoods, wet savannahs, prairies, and wet streamhead ecotones. It is restricted to the United States, growing predominantly on the southeastern coastal plain.</p>
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name=Paspalum praecox
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|authority=Walter
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|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paspalum praecox var. curtisianum;Paspalum lentiferum
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Va.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum praecox
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