Asian Crabgrass
Digitaria bicornis
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar & more
- Flowering
- March-December
How to identify Asian Crabgrass
Identify Asian Crabgrass by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: March-December.
- In India, compare location records such as Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Asian Crabgrass.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Digitaria bicornis
- Genus
- Digitaria
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Deciduous forests, Scrub forests
- Distribution
- Tropics and sub-tropics
- Found in India
- Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Poaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Asian Crabgrass itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Asian Crabgrass
A member of the Poaceae family, Asian Crabgrass (Digitaria bicornis) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar and 6 other states. It grows in deciduous forests, Scrub forests. Flowering and fruiting run from March to December.
Poaceae
Grass family
Asian Crabgrass belongs to the Poaceae family.
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