Digitaria cognata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg., 1931

Basionym
- Panicum cognatum Schult., Mant. 2: 235 (1824).
Homotypic
- Leptoloma cognata (Schult.) Chase, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 19: 192 (1906).
Heterotypic
- Panicum nudum Walter, Fl. Carol.: 73 (1788).
- Panicum divergens Muhl. ex Elliott, Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 130 (1816), nom. illeg.
- Panicum autumnale Bosc ex Spreng., Syst. Veg., 1: 320 (1824).
- Panicum fragile Kunth, Enum. Pl. 1: 36 (1833), nom. superfl.
- Panicum autumnale var. pubiflorum Vasey ex L.H.Dewey, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 2: 508 (1894), nom. illeg.
- Digitaria cognat'a subsp. pubiflora (Vasey ex L.H.Dewey) Wipff, Sida 13: 120 (1988).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
- Regional: Eastern USA
  - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina
- Regional: Central USA
  - Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin
- Introduced into:
  - Japan

Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Digitaria cognata in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 October 06. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Digitaria cognata. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 October 06. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Digitaria cognata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 October 2022.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Digitaria cognata. Published online. Accessed: October 06 2022.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Digitaria cognata in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

English: fall witchgrass