Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Poaceae | Axonopus compressus | Southern Carpetgrass, Tropical Carpetgrass | Moist disturbed areas, lawns. | Probably native in the se. United States, from SC south to s. FL, west to TX; West Indies; Mexico to South America. Reported for VA by Hitchcock & Chase (1951). | |
Poaceae | Axonopus fissifolius | Common Carpetgrass | Pine flatwoods, sandy forests, fields, roadsides, lawns. | VA south to FL, west to TX and OK, and extending into tropical America (to Argentina). | |
Poaceae | Axonopus furcatus | Big Carpetgrass | Maritime forests, other sandy forests, bottomlands, roadsides, calcareous wet meadows, lawns. | Se. VA south to FL, west to TX and AR, mainly Coastal Plain but scattered inland; apparently adventive in e. MD (Knapp et al. 2011). |