Digitaria bakeri (Nash) Fernald. Common name: Baker's Crabgrass. Phenology: Sep-Nov. Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills and dry, sandy pastures. Distribution: C. FL; alleged to be conspecific with plants native from Mexico to Panama (Wipff 2003e; Hall 2019).
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments: We here treat the FL plants as native, and as conspecific with the plants in s. Mexico south to Panama; all parts of this assumption need assessment.
Synonymy ⓘ: = FlGr, FNA25, NS, POWO; = Syntherisma bakeri Nash — HC, S13; < Digitaria gracillima (Scribn.) Fernald — K4, WH3. Basionym: Syntherisma bakeri Nash 1898
Links to other floras: = Digitaria bakeri - FNA25
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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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