Water couch

Sporobolus virginicus

Family: Poaceae Genus: Sporobolus Species: virginicus

Synonyms: Agrostis pungens, Agrostis affinis, Agrostis barbata, Agrostis distichophylla, Agrostis juncea, Agrostis virginica, Sporobolus humilis subsp. minor, Aira sabulonum, Aira sabuletorum, Agrostis dura, Sporobolus littoralis, Agrostis congener, Podosemum virginicum, Sporobolus sundaicus, Vilfa luxurians, Sporobolus muhlenbergii, Vilfa littoralis, Sporobolus confertus, Vilfa geniculata, Vilfa muhlenbergii, Vilfa murina, Aira sabulonum var. uniflora, Vilfa dura, Vilfa barbata, Vilfa conferta, Crypsis maritima, Sporobolus matrella, Sporobolus tremulus, Vilfa virginica, Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus, Sporobolus virginicus var. littoralis, Sporobolus virginicus var. minor, Zoysia tremula, Crypsis virginica, Vilfa intermedia, Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus, Sporobolus minutus subsp. confertus, Sporobolus virginicus subsp. littoralis, Agrostis tremula, Aira subulorum, Sporobolus geniculatus, Vilfa matrella, Agrostis littoralis, Sporobolus virginicus var. major, Vilfa tremula

Water couch

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Botanical Description

Flower: Color: brown; Inconspicuous

Foliage: Color: green; Texture: medium

Fruit/Seed: Color: brown

Native Region: Alabama, Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Aruba, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, Chile North, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Ecuador, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South China Sea, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Windward Is., Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

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