CRABGRASS
(Digitaria spp.)

Crabgrass

ID Features: Crabgrasses in general:
  • Rolled in the bud
  • Ligule membranous, tall
  • Auricles absent
  • Collar broad, hairy at edges
  • Sheath compressed
  • Seedhead - fingerlike spines at end of stem

  • Smooth Crabgrass(Digitaria ischaemun)
  • Ligule rounded
  • Sheath smooth, tinged purple at base

  • Large (Hairy) crabgrass(Digitaria sanguinalis)
  • Ligule jagged
  • Sheath and blades hairy
  • Growth
    Habit/Spread:
  • Annual
  • Lie flat,root at lower nodes