Common Name: large crabgrass, hairy crabgrassScientific Name: Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced annual, reproducing by seed Culmsprostrate or ascending, branching, smooth, rooting at nodes Leavesblades hairy above and below, reddish with age, rolled in bud; ligule membranous, toothed, white; sheaths flattened, hairy Seedheadsterminal racemes, 4 to 10 finger-like, from near central point, spikelet in two rows