View source for Chloris virgata

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|accepted_name=Chloris virgata
|accepted_authority=Sw.
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|common_names=Feather windmill-grass;Feather fingergrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Chloris;Chloris virgata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chloris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chloris virgata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 210
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; usually tufted, occasionally stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> 10-100+ cm. <b>Sheaths</b> usually glabrous; ligules to 4 mm, erose or ciliate; blades to 30 cm long, to 15 mm wide, basal hairs to 4 mm, otherwise usually glabrous, occasionally pilose. <b>Panicles</b> digitate, with 4-20, evidently distinct branches; branches 5-10 cm, erect to ascending, averaging 10 spikelets per cm. <b>Spikelets</b> strongly imbricate, with 1 bisexual and 1(2) sterile floret(s). <b>Lower</b> glumes 1.5-2.5 mm; upper glumes 2.5-4.3 mm; lowest lemmas 2.5-4.2 mm, keels usually prominently gibbous, glabrous, or conspicuously pilose, sides not grooved, margins glabrous, scabrous or pilose basally, with conspicuously longer hairs distally, hairs longer than 1.5 mm, lemma apices not conspicu¬ously bilobed, awned, awns 2.5-15 mm; second florets 1.4-2.9 mm long, 0.4-0.8 mm wide, somewhat widened distally, not inflated, bilobed, lobes less than 1/5 as long as the lemmas, awned from the sinuses, awns 3-9.5 mm; third florets greatly reduced, unawned and shorter than the subtending rachilla segment or absent but the rachilla segment present. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.5-2 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, elliptic. <b>2n</b> = 20, 26, 30, 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.;Tenn.;Fla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Nev.;Ind.;Ohio;Colo.;Calif.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ariz.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Utah;Mo.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Chloris virgata</i> is a widespread species that grows in many habitats, from tropical to temperate areas with hot summers, including much of the United States. It is a common weed in alfalfa fields of the southwestern United States.</p>
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name=Chloris virgata
|authority=Sw.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Annaliese Miller
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.;Tenn.;Fla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Nev.;Ind.;Ohio;Colo.;Calif.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ariz.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Utah;Mo.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Chloris
|species=Chloris virgata
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