Digitaria pubiflora(Vasey) Wipff

Carolina crabgrass

WFO wfo-0000864313 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Digitaria pubiflora, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. a Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-24 / obs. 101778730
Digitaria pubiflora, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. b Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101778745
Digitaria pubiflora, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. c CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202091612
Digitaria pubiflora, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. d CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202091593
Digitaria pubiflora, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. e CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202091630

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Digitaria pubiflora is native: Arizona, Colorado, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas ArizonaColoradoMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestNew MexicoOklahomaTexas
Native distribution of Digitaria pubiflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Arizona ARI NORTHERN AMERICA
Colorado COL
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
New Mexico NWM
Oklahoma OKL
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Digitaria ciliata subsp. pubiflora (Vasey) Wipff
  • Leptoloma pubiflorum (Vasey) Wipff & Shaw
  • Leptoloma pubiflorum var. syrticola (Wipff & Shaw) Allred
  • Leptoloma syrticola Wipff & Shaw
  • Panicum autumnale var. pubiflorum Vasey

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.