''Disakisperma dubium'' is a species of
grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns a ...
known by the common names green sprangletop and ''zacate gigante''. It is native to the Americas, where it is distributed from the United States to Argentina.
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This perennial grass grows up to 110 centimeters tall. The leaves are up to 35 centimeters long and are hairless to hairy or rough in texture.][''Leptochloa dubia''.]
Grass Manual Treatment. The leaf sheaths are sometimes purplish.[''Leptochloa dubia''.]
USDA NRCS Plant Fact Sheet. The inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
is a branching panicle with brown or greenish spikelets.[
This grass is a good forage for animals and it is sometimes added to seed mixes used for vegetating rangeland.][
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References
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Chloridoideae