Poaceae
Tropical crabgrass
Digitaria argillacea
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Digitaria
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Digitaria argillaceaPoaceae
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Common names
By language (2)
- English
- Tropical crabgrass
- ff
- Silabo
Synonyms
- Digitaria argillacea f. asetosa H.Scholz
- Digitaria argillacea var. argillacea
- Digitaria argillacea var. nulliseta Vega & Rúgolo
- Digitaria hirtigluma Hitchc.
- Digitaria lecardii (Pilg.) Stapf
- Digitaria lecardii Mez
- Panicum sanguinale var. lecardii Pilg.
- Syntherisma argillacea Hitchc. & Chase
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Annual, Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Puerto Rico: native
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.