Taxon: Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.

Common names:

• centipede grass   (Source: Grass VarUSA ) – English
  
• lazy-man's grass   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf   (for lawns fide Hortus 3)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [s.]
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Vietnam

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• also cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eremochloa ophiuroides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eremochloa ophiuroides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eremochloa ophiuroides.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Ischaemum ophiuroides Munro (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.:

• 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
• 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
• 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:

• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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