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Georgia Southwestern State University Herbarium

(GSW)

Catalog #: 00000180

Occurrence ID (GUID): http://ids.gsw.edu/herbarium/norris/00000180

Secondary Catalog #: RAN11833

Collector: Robert A. Norris

Number: 6653

Date: 1995-09-27

Verbatim Date: Sept. 27, 1995

Locality: USA, Georgia, Sumter, Just Nof Jury Clarke Rd., 2.1 (odometer) mi. Se of jct. with both State Hwy 195 and Chambliss Mill Rd., ca 9 (air)mi. SE of Anderson Villle, Sumter Co.

32.113079  -84.050628 +-7983m.  WGS84

Elevation: 122 meters Verbatim Elevation: 400ft

Habitat: In shallow depression, sometimes ponded

Substrate: Soil damp, in Grady series.

Associated Species: Digitaria sanguinalis, Brachiaria platyphylla, Eclipta prostrata, Sida spinosa, Sida rhombifolia, Xanthium strumarium; Scattered trees, especially sweetgum and willow oak, were mostly dead.

Description: Headlike spikes dingy white, with light brown tints. Ovary tannish, obcordate, flattened. Seed smooth, lenticular, two-toned--brown and drwonish yellow. Herbage generally darkish green. Some lvs. tinged with a red-purple pigment. Stems, suffused with dark purple toward the base, were weakly ascending to suberect; below, they were prostrate-decumbent, rooting at nodes. Several plants of this sp. growing with dense grass on the roadbank (drier ground) were characterized by elongate, particularly week stems.

Notes: Introduced from the tropics.

Record ID: 8339bdcc-22df-4864-b88d-d72395ea3cbb

For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Dr. Stephanie Harvey (sharvey@gsw.edu)

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