Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Digitaria adscendens (Kunth) Henrard
• (=) Digitaria chinensis Hornem.
• Basionym: Panicum ciliare Retz.
• (≡) Syntherisma ciliare (Retz.) Schrad.

Common names:

• common crabgrass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• crabgrass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• southern crabgrass  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• summer grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• tropical finger grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• digitaire ciliée  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Wimperfingerhirse  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• takri  (Source: Dict Rehm) - India (Hindi)
• capim-milhã  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• milhã  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• pata de gallina  (Source: Cavanillesia Alt) - Spanish
• franshirs  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage; forage
• Environmental:
• Weed: potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West]

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia

Europe

• EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation [Astrakhan, Volgograd]

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania (s.)]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska (s.e.), Oklahoma]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Idaho (s.e.), Montana (e.)]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida (http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/main.asp?plantID=2222), Georgia, Kentucky (w.), Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico (s.), Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California (s.)]
• Mexico

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, United States [Puerto Rico]
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Uruguay


Naturalized

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile


Other (exact native range obscure)

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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=13998. Accessed 1 July 2024.