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|accepted_name=Digitaria cognata
|accepted_authority=(Schult.) Pilg.
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|common_names=Fall witchgrass
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leptoloma cognatum
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|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Digitaria;Digitaria cognata
|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 cognata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 362
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, without rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 30-56 cm, erect; nodes glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> mainly cauline; sheaths glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent, sometimes with papillose-based hairs; ligules 0.2-1.5 mm, entire to lacerate; blades 2.4-12.6 cm long, 2-5.4 mm wide, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Panicles</b> simple, 12.8-27.5 cm long, 16.5-44.5 cm wide, open; branches divergent; lower primary branches 10.5-24 cm, often with 1-several sterile branches near the base; pedicels divergent, spikelets solitary. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.2-3.1 mm long, 0.7-1.1 mm wide, obovate or broadly elliptic. <b>Lower</b> glumes 0.1-0.8 mm; upper glumes 1.8-2.8 mm, 3(5)-veined, glabrous or pubescent between the veins, hairs appearing as a narrow stripe; lower lemmas similar to the upper glumes in length, texture, and pubescence, 7-veined, veins unequally spaced, lateral veins closer together than the 3 central veins; upper lemmas 1.9-2.9 mm, glabrous, dark brown, narrowly acute; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm, yellow or purple. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.3-1.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.;Del.;Wis.;Ont.;Fla.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Md.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Nebr.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Digitaria cognata</i> grows in dry, sandy soils in the eastern portion of the Flora region from southern Ontario and Vermont through the United States and thence to southern Mexico.</p>
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name=Digitaria cognata
|authority=(Schult.) Pilg.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Leptoloma cognatum
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Conn.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.;Del.;Wis.;Ont.;Fla.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Md.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Nebr.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Digitaria
|species=Digitaria cognata
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