Native Plants
Urochloa platyphylla
Urochloa platyphylla (Munro ex C. Wright) R.D. Webster
Broadleaf Signalgrass, Broad-leaf Liverseed Grass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: URPL2USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
Specimen & Label Data
Brachyiaria platyphylla
Broadleaf Signal Grass
Poaceae
Location: HC5, Box 5128 Boerne, TX, S (rear) of house.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: In mixed grasses of sunny site. Deep, dark alkaline, relatively well drained soil.
Description: Stems/leaves dark green. Leaves clasping, thick, alternate. Stems jointed, much branched, sprawling to prostrate.Flowers from stem tips, horizontal to stem, thicker than Red Gramma,w/black, soon falling stamens.
County: Kendall
Collector: Kristina Coates
Collection Date: Sept. 7, 1992
Specimen number: 18
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0292
Accession Date: Jan. 5, 1993
Accession Number: 21
Annotations: SXFXK
Paspalum distichum L.
det. F.R. Waller 5/31/94