View source for Cynosurus cristatus

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|accepted_name=Cynosurus cristatus
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Crested dogtail;Cynosure accrêté;Crételle des prés
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Cynosurus;Cynosurus cristatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cynosurus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cynosurus cristatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 685
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> (5)15-75 (90) cm. <b>Sheaths</b> smooth, glabrous; ligules 0.5-2.5 mm, truncate, erose or ciliolate; blades 3-15(19) cm long, 0.5-2(4.3) mm wide, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Panicles</b> (1) 3.5-14 cm long, 0.4-1 cm wide, linear, spikelike, unilateral. <b>Spikelets</b> 3-7 mm, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, pedicels to 1 mm. <b>Sterile</b> spikelets strongly laterally compressed, with 6-11(18) florets; glumes and lemmas similar, linear-lanceolate, keeled, keels ciliate, apices acuminate to awned, awns to 1 mm. <b>Fertile</b> spikelets with 2-5 florets, glumes and lemmas dissimilar; glumes 2.8-5.1 mm long, 0.6-0.9 mm wide, 1-veined, laterally compressed, hyaline, keeled, acute; rachilla internodes 0.4-0.6 mm; lemmas 3-4.5 mm long, 0.6-1.1 mm wide, dorsally compressed, membranous to subcoriaceous, not keeled, margins hyaline, ciliolate, apices obtuse to acute, unawned or awned, awns to 3 mm; anthers 1.8-3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mont.;Oreg.;Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;Wis.;W.Va.;N.H.;N.C.;Tenn.;Pa.;R.I.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Vt.;Idaho;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Mich.
|discussion=<p><i>Cynosurus cristatus</i> is a European native that is now established in North America. It grows in a wide range of soils in dry or damp habitats. In Europe it is used for fodder and pasture, especially for sheep, but in North America it is regarded as a weedy species. It is self-incompatible.</p>
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name=Cynosurus cristatus
|authority=L.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Sandy Long
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Mont.;Oreg.;Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;Wis.;W.Va.;N.H.;N.C.;Tenn.;Pa.;R.I.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Vt.;Idaho;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Mich.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Cynosurus
|species=Cynosurus cristatus
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