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|accepted_name=Digitaria serotina
|accepted_authority=(Walter) Michx.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Digitaria;Digitaria serotina
|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>[[Digitaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Digitaria serotina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 370
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; often mat-forming. <b>Culms</b> 10-30 cm, decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> conspicuously and densely hairy, longer hairs 1.5-2.5 mm, papillose-based, shorter hairs about 0.5 mm, not papillose-based; ligules 1.5-2.5 mm; blades 2-9 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, conspicuously hairy on both surfaces, longer hairs 1.5-2.5 mm, papillose-based, shorter hairs about 0.5 mm, not papillose-based. <b>Panicles</b> with 2-9 spikelike primary branches, digitate or on rachises to 4 cm; primary branch axes 3-10 cm, wing-margined, wings wider than the midribs, lower and middle portions bearing spikelets in groups of 3; secondary branches rarely present; shortest pedicels 0.5-0.8 mm; midlength pedicels 1.5-2 mm; longest pedicels 3-3.5 mm, adnate to the branch axes basally. <b>Spikelets</b> homomorphic, 1.5-1.8 mm, lanceolate. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes 1/6-1/3 as long as the spikelets, margins and apices with appressed white hairs, hairs about 0.3 mm; lower lemmas 7-veined, veins equally spaced, appressed-pubescent between the inner lateral veins and on the margins, hairs 0.3-0.5 mm, minutely verrucose (use 50x magnification); upper lemmas yellow or tan at maturity. <b>2n</b> - unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Va.;N.C.;Ga.;La.;Del.;Ala.;Pa.;Miss.;S.C.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Digitaria serotina</i> is native to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. It has also been found in Cuba, possibly as an introduction, and on a ballast dump in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its densely hairy sheath and short, densely hairy blades make this one of the more distinctive species of <i>Digitaria</i> in the Flora region.</p>
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name=Digitaria serotina
|authority=(Walter) Michx.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Va.;N.C.;Ga.;La.;Del.;Ala.;Pa.;Miss.;S.C.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Digitaria
|species=Digitaria serotina
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