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|accepted_name=Leersia lenticularis
|accepted_authority=Michx.
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|common_names=Catchfly grass;Oatmeal grass
|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae;Poaceae tribe Oryzeae;Leersia;Leersia lenticularis
|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 lenticularis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 44
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous, rhizomes moderately elongate, scaly. <b>Culms</b> 50-150 cm tall, 1-3 mm thick, usually ascending, unbranched or branched; nodes retrorsely hispidulous, adjacent portion of the internodes glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or scabrous; ligules 0.5-1.5 mm; blades 4-35 cm long, 5-22 mm wide, spreading to somewhat ascending, abaxial surfaces glabrous or scabridulous, adaxial surfaces glabrous or pubescent, margins usually scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 4-25 cm, exserted, with 1(2) branches per node; branches 8-15 cm, spreading, secund, lower branches naked on the lower 73, spikelets strongly imbricate. <b>Spikelets</b> 4-5.5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, broadly elliptic to suborbicular. <b>Lemmas</b> coarsely ciliate on the keels, variously pubescent on the margins and body, mucronate; paleas ciliate on the keels; anthers 2. <b>Caryopses</b> 3.5-4 mm, reddish-brown. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;Tenn.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Minn.;Ala.;Wis.;Kans.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Fla.;Ohio
|discussion=<p><i>Leersia lenticularis</i> grows in river bottoms and moist woods of the midwestern and southeastern United States. It flowers from July to November. Ohio and Maryland list it as an endangered species.</p>
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name=Leersia lenticularis
|authority=Michx.
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Md.;Tenn.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Minn.;Ala.;Wis.;Kans.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Fla.;Ohio
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Oryzeae
|genus=Leersia
|species=Leersia lenticularis
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