Cenchrus echinatus L.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Annual, ascending from a geniculate base, 2–8 dm; lvs 4–25 cm × 4–10 mm; burs well spaced on a flexuous rachis, short-hairy, 5–10 × 3.5–6 mm, truncate at the base, the single row of coarse upper spines 2–5 mm, retrorsely scabrid, mostly erect, sometimes interlocking, those of the outer rows finer, half as long, more divergent or some of them reflexed; spikelets 2–3 per bur, 5–7.5 mm; 2n=34, 68. Sandy waste places and forest-margins; trop. Amer., n. to N.C. and even D.C.
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Common Names
hedgehog-grass