Large Crabgrass, Hairy Crabgrass
Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.
Poaceae (Grass Family)
seedlings ▲
▲young plant
▲▼ mature plants
▲ ▼ close up of hairs on leaf blades, sheaths
Large Crabgass, Hairy Crabgrass:
· also with spreading growth habit, similar to southern crabgrass and smooth crabgrass, but can grow to 12-24” tall and equally wide
· digitate panicles with 4-9 panicle branches that are 1.75-5.5” long
· leaves have hairs on both sides of blade and long hairs on the sheath; usually dark green in color, sometimes turning dark red on sheaths and stem as plants mature
· leaf midvein is prominent
· stems also root at the nodes
· inflorescence is a digitate panicle with 3-5 branches