''Leptochloa crinita'',

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including ''Trichloris crinita'', is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

in the grass family

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

. It is known by the common name false Rhodes grass. It is native to the Americas, where it occurs in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and South America from

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to south

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

.''Trichloris crinita''.
Grass Manual Treatment. This perennial grass reaches up to 1 meter tall. It sometimes spreads via

stolon In biology, a stolon ( from Latin ''wikt:stolo, stolō'', genitive ''stolōnis'' – "branch"), also known as a runner, is a horizontal connection between parts of an organism. It may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton. Typically, animal ...

s. The rough-haired leaves are up to 20 centimeters long by 1 centimeter wide. The

panicle In botany, a panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a p ...

is a cluster of up to 20 branches arranged in tight whorls. Each branch is up to 15 centimeters long and lined with tiny spikelets. Each spikelet has one bisexual and one or two sterile flowers. This species is a common forage grass on dry plains in Argentina.Greco, S. and J. B. Cavagnaro. (2003)
Effects of drought in biomass production and allocation in three varieties of ''Trichloris crinita'' P. (Poaceae) a forage grass from the arid Monte region of Argentina.
''Plant Ecology'' 164(1) 125-35. In the US it is used for range revegetation.''Trichloris crinita''.
USDA NRCS Plant Fact Sheet.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q92389300, from2=Q7840688, from3=Q39587423 Chloridoideae Grasses of Mexico Grasses of the United States Grasses of Argentina Flora of Arizona Flora of Chihuahua (state) Flora of New Mexico Flora of Sonora Native grasses of Texas