Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
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Scientific Name:<br />
Common Name(s):<br />
Panicum repens<br />
Torpedo grass, Quack grass, Bullet grass<br />
Height:<br />
Leaves:<br />
Flowers:<br />
Bark:<br />
Fruit:<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r:<br />
Treatment:<br />
Up to three feet<br />
Upper leaf sheaths are glabrous or hairy. Leaf blades are stiff, linear, flat or<br />
folded, reaching ten inches in length and <strong>of</strong>ten having surfaces with a whitish<br />
waxy coating.<br />
Inflorescence is three to nine inches long with erect branches. Flowers nearly<br />
all year<br />
N/A<br />
Grass seeds<br />
Perennial grass with sharp, torpedo-like growing tips. Tolerant <strong>of</strong> drought<br />
and partial shade, but ideally suited to moist to wet sandy or organic soils.<br />
Reproduces principally via rhizomes.<br />
Foliar with high concentration <strong>of</strong> Rodeo<br />
APIRS- http://aquat1.ifas.edu<br />
<strong>Identification</strong> & Biology <strong>of</strong> Non-Native <strong>Plants</strong> in<br />
<strong>Florida</strong>’s Natural Areas by K.A Langeland, K.<br />
Craddock Burks<br />
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