Taxon: Paspalum laeve Michx.

Common names:

• field paspalum   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants. (Atlas Tenn)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. (Atlas GPlains)
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants. (Atlas Ill)
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Paspalum laeve.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Paspalum laeve. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Paspalum laeve Michx.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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

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• 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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