Calflora: Crypsis vaginiflora

Crypsis vaginiflora (Forsskal) Opiz

African prickle grass, African pricklegrass

Crypsis vaginiflora, a monocot, is an annual herb that is not native to California; it was introduced from elsewhere and naturalized in the wild.

Note: TJM2 bloom period: Jun--Sep

Communities:	(many plant communities), wetland-riparian
Wetlands:	Occurs almost always under natural conditions in wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 1640 feet
Family:	POACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Crypsis found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Crypsis aculeata
TJM2 + PLANTS:	Crypsis niliacea

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
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	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 1 / 1 CCH Amador: 1 / 1 CCH Butte: 18 / 15 CCH Contra Costa: 3 / 3 CCH Colusa: 19 / 19 CCH El Dorado: 1 / 1 CCH Fresno: 2 / 2 CCH Glenn: 8 / 7 CCH Humboldt: 5 / 4 CCH Kern: 6 / 6 CCH Lake: 11 / 10 CCH Lassen: 7 / 6 CCH Los Angeles: 19 / 16 CCH Mendocino: 6 / 4 CCH Merced: 11 / 10 CCH Monterey: 4 / 3 CCH Modoc: 6 / 5 CCH Marin: 3 / 2 CCH Napa: 1 / 1 CCH Orange: 1 / 0 CCH Plumas: 8 / 7 CCH Riverside: 12 / 11 CCH Sacramento: 8 / 6 CCH Santa Barbara: 3 / 3 CCH San Benito: 1 / 1 CCH Santa Clara: 21 / 19 CCH San Diego: 22 / 19 CCH Shasta: 1 / 1 CCH Siskiyou: 1 / 1 CCH San Joaquin: 17 / 17 CCH San Luis Obispo: 2 / 2 CCH Solano: 15 / 12 CCH Sonoma: 10 / 8 CCH Stanislaus: 8 / 8 CCH Sutter: 7 / 6 CCH Tehama: 7 / 6 CCH Ventura: 5 / 3 CCH Yolo: 9 / 8 CCH Yuba: 1 / 1 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Crypsis vaginiflora from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (CRVA2)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database