*Digitaria violascens
Spikelets with short fine hairs with verrucose walls, purplish black, c. 1.5 mm long. Lower glume absent or minute; upper glume slightly shorter than the spikelet. Racemes usually 4–6, 5–10 cm long, on a short common axis. Ascending annual up to 50 cm high, rooting at the lower nodes. Coast. Weed. Introd. from trop. America and Asia. Fl. summer