Common names:

• masher grass  (Source: Blumea) - English
• small-flower panic grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• tickle grass  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English

Economic Importance:

• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• Mexico

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, United States [Puerto Rico]
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil [Acre, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia]
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina [Jujuy, Salta]


Naturalized




Africa

• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Uganda
• Africa

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China [Guangdong Sheng, Hainan Sheng]

Asia-Tropical

• INDO-CHINA: Laos

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [Queensland (n.), Western Australia (n.), Northern Territory (n.)]

Northern America

• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=103644. Accessed 1 July 2024.