Poaceae
Shaggy crabgrass
Digitaria villosa
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Digitaria
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Digitaria villosaPoaceae
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Shaggy crabgrass
Synonyms
- Digitaria domingensis (Zuccagni) Roem. & Schult.
- Digitaria filiformis var. villosa (Walter) Fernald
- Digitaria leucocoma (Nash) Urb.
- Digitaria obtusa Swallen
- Digitaria pilosa Michx.
- Panicum domingense Zuccagni
- Panicum leucocomum (Nash) Scribn.
- Paspalum carolinianum Poir.
- Syntherisma leucocoma Nash
- Syntherisma villosa Walter
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native, 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.