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Digitaria sanguinalis (redhair crabgrass; purple crabgrass; Crabgrass; large crabgrass; hairy crab grass; hairy crabgrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Digitaria sanguinalis is a species of grass known by several common names, including hairy crabgrass, hairy finger-grass, large crabgrass, crab finger grass, purple crabgrass. It is one of the better-known species of the genus Digitaria, and one that is known nearly worldwide as a common weed. It is used as animal fodder, and the seeds are edible and have been used as a grain in Germany and especially Poland, where it is sometimes cultivated. This has earned it the name Polish Millet.
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Infraspecies

Digitaria sanguinalis f. atricha
Digitaria sanguinalis f. distachya
Digitaria sanguinalis var. glabra
Digitaria sanguinalis var. pubescens
Digitaria sanguinalis var. repens

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  There is a report that the leaves might be cyanogenic;
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Structure [3]  Grass
Usage [1]  A fibre obtained from the plant is used in making paper;
Height [1]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
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Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Blumeria graminis[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 8Bubalus mindorensis, Carlo C. Custodio, Myrissa V. Lepiten, and Lawrence R. Heaney, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 520, pp. 1-5 (1996)
♦ 9New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 10del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 11Microtus ochrogaster, Dick T. Stalling, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 355, pp. 1-9 (1990)
♦ 12Green Peafowl, BirdLife International (2001) Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.
♦ 13Dieta de Zonotrichia capensis (Emberizidae) y Diuca diuca (Fringillidae): efecto de la variación estacional de los recursos tróficos y la riqueza de aves granívoras en Chile central, M. VICTORIA LOPEZ-CALLEJA, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 68:321-331, 1995
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0