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Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler
Southern crabgrass

Copyright by: Shirley Denton

Family: Poaceae

Group: Monocot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Annual

Native Range: United States, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America; also an introduced weed in the Old World.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Secure

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Not Cultivated

Synonyms: Syntherisma marginatum.

Other data on Digitaria ciliaris available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Digitaria ciliaris has been found in the following 122 conservation areas :
A.D. Doug Barnes Park	Present	Native
Arch Creek Addition	Present	Native
Arch Creek Park	Present	Native
Bahia Honda State Park	Reported
Big and Little George Hammocks	Present	Native
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Big Torch Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park	Present	Native
Bill Sadowski Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park, Florida Keys Section	Present	Native
Black Creek Forest	Present	Native
Black Point Park and Marina	Present	Native
Blazing Star Preserve	Present	Native
Blowing Rocks Preserve	Present	Native
Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer Addition	Present	Native
Cape Romano - Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 28	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 33	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock Park	Present	Native
Chapman Field Park	Present	Native
Chernoff Hammock	Present	Native
Coral Pines Park	Present	Native
Coral Reef Park	Possibly Extirpated	Native
County Line Scrub, Miami-Dade County	Present	Native
Crandon Park	Present	Native
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Danforth Park	Present	Native
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Native
Delray Beach Municipal Beach	Present	Native
Dolphin Center and Dolphin Center Addition	Present	Native
Dove Creek Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park	Present	Native
Dry Tortugas National Park	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Dupuis Reserve	Present	Native
Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Florida City Pineland	Present	Native
Fort Lauderdale Ex. Airport Gopher Tortoise Preserve	Present	Native
Frenchman's Forest Natural Area	Present	Native
Frog Pond/L-31 N Transition Lands	Present	Native
Fuchs Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
George N. Avery Pineland	Present	Native
Greynolds Park	Present	Native
Gulfstream Park	Present	Native
Harden Hammock	Present	Native
Hattie Bauer Hammock	Present	Native
Hawk's Hammock Park	Present	Native
Highland Oaks Park	Present	Native
Highlands Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Hillsboro Pineland Natural Area	Present	Native
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Holiday Hammock	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Native
Ingram Pineland	Present	Native
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park	Present	Native
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park	Assumed to be Present	Native
Jonathan Dickinson State Park	Present	Native
Juno Dunes Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area	Present	Native
Kendall Indian Hammocks Park	Present	Native
Lake Okeechobee Marshes	Present	Native
Lake San Pedro Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Little Torch Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Long Key Natural Area & Nature Center	Present	Native
Long Key State Park	Present	Native
Loveland Hammock	Present	Native
Lucille Hammock	Present	Native
Mangrove Preserve	Present	Native
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Meissner Hammock	Present	Native
Milton E. Thompson Park	Present	Native
Miramar Pineland	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland 23	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Addition	Present	Native
Ocean Ridge Hammock Park	Present	Native
Oleta River State Park	Present	Native
Palm Drive Pineland	Present	Native
Phipps Ocean Park	Present	Native
Picayune Strand State Forest	Present	Native
Pine Island Ridge Natural Area	Present	Native
Pine Shore Preserve	Present	Native
Quail Roost Pineland	Present	Native
Ramrod Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Red Reef Park, including Gumbo Limbo Nature Center	Present	Native
Riverbend Park	Present	Native
Rock Pit 39	Present	Native
Rockdale Pineland	Present	Native
Rocky Point Hammock	Present	Native
Ron Ehmann Park	Present	Native
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Present	Native
Savannas Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Scrub Oak Park	Present	Native
Seabranch Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Sewell Park	Present	Native
Silver Palm Groves	Present	Native
Silver Palm Hammock	Present	Native
Simpson Park	Present	Native
Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve	Present	Native
Snake Creek Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
SOCSOUTH	Present	Native
Sunny Palms Pineland	Present	Native
Tree Island Park	Present	Native
Trinity Pineland	Present	Native
Tropical Park	Present	Native
Virginia Key Beach Park and Marine Stadium	Present	Native
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens	Present	Native
Warbler Wetland Natural Area	Present	Native
West Biscayne Pineland	Present	Native
Wild Turkey Strand Preserve	Present	Native
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park	Present	Native
Yamato Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Zoo Miami	Present	Native

	Occurrence	Native Status
Digitaria ciliaris has been found in the following 8 counties :
Broward County		Native
Collier County		Native
Lee County		Native
Martin County		Native
Miami-Dade County		Native
Monroe County (Keys)		Native
Monroe County (Mainland)		Native
Palm Beach County		Native