Seeding stems and leaves. Photo: Zoya Akulova, California, USA

Plant. Photo: JC Schou, Denmark

Seeding stems and leaves. Photo: Luigi Rignanese, Italy

Leaf. Photo: Zoya Akulova, California, USA

Line drawing in Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States

Common Name

Crab Grass, Summer Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Introduced annual grass to 1m tall. Leaves with a hairy to sparsely hairy sheath at the base. Ligule a membrane without a fringe of hairs. Leaves 3-17cm long, 2-14mm wide, flat, hairless to sparsely hairy, or rough, edges often wavy. Spikelets pale greenish or purplish, 2-4mm long. Seeds with 0 bristles. Mature seed groups spreading.

Short description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 87

PlantNET description with line drawings and photos of dried plants:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Digitaria~sanguinalis

ausgrass2 description with line drawings and photos:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/Digitaria-sanguinalis