Common Name: large crabgrass, hairy crabgrass
Scientific Name: Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.
Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass Family

Identification Notes:

life cycle - annual, reproducing by seed

culms - prostrate or ascending, branching, smooth, rooting at nodes growth habit 1, growth habit 2, growth habit 3, growth habit 4

leaves - blades hairy above and below, reddish with age, rolled in bud; ligule membranous, toothed, white; sheaths flattened, hairy seedlings 1, seedlings 2, sheath

seedheads - terminal racemes, 4 to 10 finger-like, from near central point, spikelet in two rows

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