LONGTOM Paspalum lividum Perennial, warm, native, fair grazing for wildlife and livestock 20-40" tall with smooth stems growing from a creeping base. The leaf blades are short, about 3" long and up to 1/4" wide. The inflorescence has 4-7 lossely attached racemes which grow parallel and close to the axis. The seed are borne in straight rows along the side of each branch. Grows abundantly on poorly drained soils. Areas 1,2,6
BROWNSEED PASPALUM Paspalum plicatulum Perennial, warm, native, fair grazing for wildlife and livestock. 1 1/2 - 3' tall with purplish compressed culms and sheaths. The plant resembles dallisgrass but the blades are much narrower, racemes are shorter and fruit not covered with silky hairs. The spikelets are gray-green turning dark brown and shining when ripe. Grows in savannahs in moist sandy or clay soil. Areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.

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