Taxon:
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. var. dactylon
Summary
Verified:
01/11/1990
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
- Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
- Harlan, J. R. & J. M. J. de Wet. 1969. Sources of variation in Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.. Crop Sci. (Madison) 9:774-778.
- Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. A guide to the species of Cynodon (Gramineae). Bull. Oklahoma Agric. Exp. Sta. B-673:12.
- Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
- Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
Bahama grass – Bermuda grass – devil's grass – hariali grass – quick grass – Afrikaans
kweekgras – French
cynodon dactyle – grand chiendent – German
Bermudagras – Hundezahngras – India
dhub – doob – Portuguese
capim-Bermuda – Spanish
grama rastrera – zacate de Bermuda –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. weed |
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Naturalized
(widely natzd. weed)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
erosion control (fide Food Feed Crops US) – Weed
(fide Weed CIBA) –