- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›monocots
- ›grasses, sedges, cattails, and allies
- ›grasses
- ›Paniceae, andropogoneae, paspaleae, and allies
- ›bristle, rosette, and barnyard grasses, and allies
- ›Anthephorinae
crabgrasses, cottontops, and allies
Digitaria
Digitaria is a genus of plants in the grass family native to tropical and warm temperate regions. Common names include crabgrass, finger-grass, and fonio. They are slender monocotyledonous annual and perennial lawn, pasture, and forage plants; some are often considered lawn pests. Digitus is the Latin word for "finger", and they are distinguished by the long, finger-like inflorescences they produce.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Hairy Crabgrass
speciesDigitaria sanguinalis
smooth crabgrass
speciesDigitaria ischaemum
Tropical Finger-grass
speciesDigitaria ciliaris
trailing crabgrass
speciesDigitaria radicosa
Digitgrass
speciesDigitaria eriantha
Fall Witchgrass
speciesDigitaria cognata
Sourgrass
speciesDigitaria insularis
Arizona cottontop
speciesDigitaria californica
Henry's crabgrass
speciesDigitaria henryi
Violet Crabgrass
speciesDigitaria violascens
East Indian crabgrass
speciesDigitaria setigera
Small-flowered Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria parviflora
Asian Crabgrass
speciesDigitaria bicornis
cotton grass
speciesDigitaria brownii
Blue Couch
speciesDigitaria didactyla
Finger Panic Grass
speciesDigitaria porrecta
slender crabgrass
speciesDigitaria filiformis
False Couch Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria longiflora
umbrella grass
speciesDigitaria divaricatissima
Long-Plumed Finger Gras
speciesDigitaria velutina
Digitaria scalarum
speciesDigitaria scalarum
Carolina crabgrass
speciesDigitaria pubiflora
Blackseed Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria ternata
Digitaria breviglumis
speciesDigitaria breviglumis
Naked Crabgrass
speciesDigitaria nuda
Digitaria sericea
speciesDigitaria sericea
Shaggy Crabgrass
speciesDigitaria villosa
Digitaria heterantha
speciesDigitaria heterantha
Digitaria ammophila
speciesDigitaria ammophila
Digitaria ramularis
speciesDigitaria ramularis
Purple Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria tricholaenoides
creeping kukaepua`a
speciesDigitaria fuscescens
Digitaria eriostachya
speciesDigitaria eriostachya
Jamaican crabgrass
speciesDigitaria horizontalis
One-finger Grass
speciesDigitaria monodactyla
Digitaria stricta
speciesDigitaria stricta
Digitaria mollicoma
speciesDigitaria mollicoma
Silver Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria argyrograpta
Twospike Crabgrass
speciesDigitaria pauciflora
Texas cottontop
speciesDigitaria patens
Argentinian crabgrass
speciesDigitaria aequiglumis
Abyssinian Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria abyssinica
Brown Seed Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria diagonalis
Digitaria diffusa
speciesDigitaria diffusa
Digitaria nematostachya
speciesDigitaria nematostachya
Digitaria debilis
speciesDigitaria debilis
Dwarf Crabgrass
speciesDigitaria serotina
Digitaria abludens
speciesDigitaria abludens
Makarikari Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria milanjiana
Digitaria leucostachya
speciesDigitaria leucostachya
Coast Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria natalensis
Brown Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria brazzae
Kuruman Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria seriata
Digitaria leptalea
speciesDigitaria leptalea
Digitaria pseudodiagonalis
speciesDigitaria pseudodiagonalis
Digitaria gibbosa
speciesDigitaria gibbosa
Digitaria sacchariflora
speciesDigitaria sacchariflora
Digitaria pennata
speciesDigitaria pennata
Richmond Finger Grass
speciesDigitaria diversinervis
Digitaria gazensis
speciesDigitaria gazensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51637.