Taxon: Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler

Common names:

• common crabgrass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• crabgrass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• southern crabgrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• summer grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• tropical finger grass   (Source: R. P. Ellis, p.c.) – English
  
• digitaire ciliée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Wimperfingerhirse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• takri   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India (Hindi)
  
• capim-milhã   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• milhã   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• pata de gallina   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  
• franshirs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:119-121. 1992)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass NE India; Grass SEAs)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Grass SAfr)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa - Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape; Swaziland
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska [s.e.], Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho [s.e.], Montana [e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky [w.], Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.], Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [s.]
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Jamaica; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Uruguay

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Guadeloupe
  Southern South America: Chile

• exact native range obscure

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:119–121.
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource). [as "exotic"].
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. [native].
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• Townsend, J., ed. South Carolina plant atlas (on-line resource).
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1973. Blumea 21:32–35.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Webster, R. D. 1983. A revision of the genus Digitaria Haller (Paniceae:Poaceae) in Australia. Brunonia 6:170–172.
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).
• Yatskievych, G. 1999–. Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, revised edition.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:197.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Digitaria ciliaris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Digitaria ciliaris.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Digitaria ciliaris.

Synonyms:

• (=) Digitaria adscendens (Kunth) Henrard
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (≡) Panicum ciliare Retz. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Syntherisma ciliare (Retz.) Schrad.
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)

Check other web resources for Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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