Author
Katie Percy
Cauline leaves
grasslike fimbry
Common Name
Moist to wet sandy soil and alluvium, open disturbed waste places; not native but introduced.
Ecology
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=FIMI
Flora North America generic description:
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=112803
Electronic links
CYPERACEAE, sedge family
Family
Fruiting summer–fall, all year southward.
Flowering period
Flowers: stamens 1–2; styles 3-fid, slender, base dilated, apex pubescent.
Flowers
Achenes pale brown, tumid, obovoid, 1 mm, apiculate, reticulate, with pits narrowly rectangular in 4–6 vertical rows per side, the longitudinal ribs most prominent and mostly warty. 2n = 10.
Fruit
Origin is probably in the Asian rice belt.
Introduced; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.; Mexico; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa; Indian Ocean Islands; Pacific Ocean Islands; Australia.
Geographic distribution
Inflorescences: anthela compound, usually diffuse, branched, broadening upward, often as broad as long; scapes slender, angularly ribbed and/or somewhat compressed distally, 1–1.5 mm wide or thick; involucral bracts exceeded by anthela.
Inflorescence
Leaves distichous, in fans, to ca. 2/3 plant height; sheaths keeled, equitant, margins entire; ligule absent; blades bifacial (flattened in same plane as sheath), narrowly triangular linear, to 2 mm wide, margins scabrid at least distally.
Leaves
Plants annual, cespitose, 15–50(–70) cm, glabrous, base soft; rhizomes absent.
Plant and Stem Features
Fimbristylis miliacea (Linnaeus) Vahl
Species name
Spikelets dark red-brown, broadly ovoid to near round, 2–4 mm; fertile scales broadly ovate to orbiculate, 1 mm, glabrous, apex broadly rounded, midrib not excurrent.
Spikelets
Fimbristylis littoralis Gaudichaud; Isolepis miliacea (Linnaeus) J. Presl & C. Presl; Scirpus bengalensis Persoon; Trichelostylis miliacea (Linnaeus) Nees
Synonyms
OBL