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Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald
mat sandbur

       
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Line Drawing of Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald
Cenchrus carolinianus

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 167. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.
 
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Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

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Synonyms:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

  CECA6 Cenchrus carolinianus Walter
 

Distribution:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

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Distribution Map Legend

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:

USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (BC, ON, QC)
 

Related Taxa:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

View 338 genera in Poaceae, 10 species in Cenchrus
 

Classification:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

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Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass Commelinidae
Order Cyperales
Family Poaceae – Grass family
Genus Cenchrus L. – sandbur
Species Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald – mat sandbur
 

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Maine:
long-spined sandbur              Threatened
New Hampshire:
burgrass              Threatened
 

Noxious Weed Information:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.

California:
mat sandbur              C list (noxious weeds)
Washington:
longspine sandbur              Class B noxious weed
 

U.S. Weed Information:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

burgrass
field sandbur
longspine sandbur
mat sandbur

This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.

STATE        Assorted authors. 200_. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
N'EAST        Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal, & J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York. 397pp.
NE&GP        Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe, & M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska. 589pp.
SWSS        Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS        Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming. 630pp.
 

More Accounts and Images:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account, distribution map, and illustration from the Grass Manual on the Web.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 40570.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View photographs and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

View species account and photographs from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium.

 

Related Web Sites:
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald

NE-University of Nebraska Weed Publications

UC Davis, IPM: abstract & images

WA-Noxious Weed List & Information

 
 
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