Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Paspalum > Paspalum distichumPaspalum distichum (knotgrass; knotroot paspalum)Synonyms: Anastrophus paspalodes; Anastrophus paspaloides; Digitaria disticha (homotypic); Digitaria paspalodes; Digitaria paspaloides; Dimorphostachys oaxacensis (homotypic); Milium distichum (homotypic); Milium paspalodes; Milium paspaloides; Panicum digitaria; Panicum digitarioides (heterotypic); Panicum fernandezianum; Panicum paspaliforme; Panicum polyrrhizum; Paspalum berterianum (homotypic); Paspalum berteroanum (homotypic); Paspalum bracteatum (homotypic); Paspalum chepica; Paspalum digitaria (heterotypic); Paspalum distichum digitaria; Paspalum distichum distichum; Paspalum distichum indutum; Paspalum distichum longirepens; Paspalum distichum microstachyum; Paspalum distichum paspalodes; Paspalum distichum paspaloides; Paspalum distichum paucispicatum; Paspalum distichum var. digitaria; Paspalum distichum var. indutum; Paspalum distichum var. longirepens; Paspalum distichum var. microstachyum; Paspalum distichum var. paspalodes; Paspalum distichum var. paspaloides; Paspalum distinctum; Paspalum elliottii; Paspalum fernandezianum; Paspalum glaucifolium (homotypic); Paspalum michauxianum; Paspalum oajacense; Paspalum oaxacense; Paspalum paspaliforme; Paspalum paspalodes; Paspalum paspalodes var. paspalodes; Paspalum paspaloides; Paspalum paucispicatum; Paspalum polyrhizum; Paspalum schaffneri (heterotypic); Paspalum vaginatum; Paspalum vaginatum pubescens; Paspalum vaginatum var. pubescens Paspalum distichum is a species of grass. Common names include knotgrass, water finger-grass, couch paspalum, eternity grass, gingergrass, and Thompson grass. Its native range is obscure because it has long been present on most continents, and in most areas it is certainly an introduced species. Its native range probably includes parts of the tropical Americas. This is a perennial grass forming clumps and spreading via rhizomes and stolons. It grows decumbent or erect to a maximum height near 60 centimeters. The inflorescence is usually divided into two branches lined with spikelets. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | High |  | | Lifespan [2] | Perennial | | Structure [3] | Grass |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Cantabric Coast - Languedoc |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Eastern Coastal Australia |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers |
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Eastern Iberia |
Andorra, France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Murray - Darling |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Southern Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Western Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve |
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34336011 |
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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Cape Lookout National Seashore |
II |
18379 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park |
II |
15448 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve |
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Florida, United States |
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Fort Pulaski National Monument |
V |
4213 |
Georgia, United States |
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Gulf Island National Seashore |
II |
67487 |
Florida, Mississippi, United States |
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Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
28351 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Mburucuyá National Park |
II |
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Corrientes, Argentina |
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Oconee National Forest Botanical Reserve |
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306 |
Georgia, United States |
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Palo Verde National Park |
II |
46190 |
Costa Rica |
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Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve |
II |
4859 |
Cuba |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5Boselaphus tragocamelus, DAVID M. LESLIE, JR., MAMMALIAN SPECIES 813:116 (2008) ♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 8Feeding Habits of Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, Linnaeus 1766), in the Ecological Reserve of Taim (ESEC - Taim) - South of Brazil, Lucélia do Valle Borges and Ioni Gonçalves Colares, Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, Vol.50, n. 3 : pp.409-416 May 2007 ♦ 9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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