Synonyms:  Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S. T. Blake

                    Panicum texanum Buckley

Natural range:  Southern U.S., Mexico, the extent to which this distribution is natural is unclear

Habitat:  Moist disturbed sites.

Florida status:  Native? (probably not)

Recognition:   Large grass with more or less decumbent stems rooting at the notes.  Leaves with a slight blue tint, abundantly and conspicuously soft-pilose with erect hairs, including the sheaths and both leaf surfaces, the leaf margins ciliate.