Digitaria leucocoma (Nash) Urb. (1920:24)
Lake Ella crabgrass
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Syntherisma leucocoma Nash in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 295 (1898); Panicum leucocomum (Nash) Scribn. in Bull. Div. Agrostol. U.S.D.A. 7(ed. 2): 58 (1898)
Conservation Status
Missing (NatureServe, 2026) or Invalid (synonym of D. villosa) (POWO, 2026)
Distribution & Habitat
high pine-lands near Lake Ella, Lake County, Florida, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Nash, G. V. (1898). The genus Syntherisma in North America. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 25(6): 289-303.
Other references:
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). (2003). Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 25. Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, part 2. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. xxv + 781 pp.
Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter D: 1-30141.
NatureServe. (2026). Digitaria leucocoma: Lake Ella Crabgrass. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 22 August 2026]
POWO. (2026). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 22 August 2026]
Weakley, A.S., and Southeastern Flora Team. (2023). Flora of the southeastern United States. Edition of April 14, 2023. University of North Carolina Herbarium (NCU), North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 2105 pp.