View source for Paspalum laeve

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|accepted_name=Paspalum laeve
|accepted_authority=Michx.
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|common_names=Field paspalum
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|name=Paspalum longipilum
|authority=
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|name=Paspalum laeve var. pilosum
|authority=
|rank=variety
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|name=Paspalum laeve var. circulare
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|rank=variety
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|name=Paspalum laeve var. australe
|authority=
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|name=Paspalum circulare
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum laeve
|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 laeve]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 572
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; shortly rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 40-120 cm, erect; nodes glabrous or pubescent. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pubescent; ligules 1.5-3.8 mm; blades to 37 cm long, 2-9.3 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with 1-6 racemosely arranged branches; branches 2-10.9 cm, diverging to spreading (rarely erect), persistent; branch axes 0.6-1.3 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.3-3.3 mm long, 2-2.7 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to obovate or nearly orbicular, glabrous, stramineous. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes 3-veined, lower lemmas 5-veined; upper florets pale to stramineous. <b>Caryopses</b> about 2 mm, white to yellow-brown. <b>2n</b> = 20, 58, 70, 80.</span><!--

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|distribution=Del.;D.C.;W.Va.;Fla.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Conn.;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Mass.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;Miss.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum laeve</i> is restricted to the eastern United States. It grows at the edges of forests and in disturbed areas.</p>
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name=Paspalum laeve
|authority=Michx.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paspalum longipilum;Paspalum laeve var. pilosum;Paspalum laeve var. circulare;Paspalum laeve var. australe;Paspalum circulare
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Del.;D.C.;W.Va.;Fla.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Conn.;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Mass.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;Miss.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum laeve
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