Coastal Sandbur

(Cenchrus spinifex)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers

Growing habits: Tufted annual or short-lived perennial

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots which spread from stolons

Leaf anatomy: Leaf surfaces rough, glabrous, sheaths compressed, leaves occasionally pubescent on lower nodes and/or on sheath margins

Reproduction: Raceme inflorescence, burs with up to 40 spines, burs not crowded

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}