EcoFlora - Panicum

Panicum
Family: Poaceae Macleay Grass Man	Gleason & Cronquist Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Spikelets with one perfect terminal fl, lanceolate or fusiform to ovoid, obovoid, or globose, usually somewhat compressed dorsiventrally and biconvex; first glume very short or minute and usually scarious or membranous, or in some spp. nearly as long as the second; second glume about as long as the spikelet, herbaceous, green or colored, often prominently nerved; sterile lemma similar to the second glume, enclosing a palea and sometimes a staminate fl; fertile lemma indurate, usually white or pale and smooth or shining, veinless (or sometimes with 5-7 evident veins at full maturity), the margins inrolled over the edges of the indurate or membranous palea, the apex typically obtuse; ligule in most spp. a band of hairs, or obsolete; spikelets usually small, in panicles or spike-like racemes. 500, cosmop. (Dichanthelium) The spp. of subg. Dichanthelium, and especially spp. 21-34, form an intergrading group in which the taxonomic limits are difficult to discern and are still debatable. The flag-lf referred to in the descriptions of some spp. of subg. Dichanthelium is the uppermost lf of the culm. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: TNC: Green's Bluff and Environs, Owen County \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Panicum acicularifolium Media not available Map not Available Panicum acostia Media not available Map not Available Panicum acroanthum Map not Available Panicum acrotrichum Media not available Map not Available Panicum acuminatissimum Map not Available Panicum addisonii Map not Available Panicum adenophorum Map not Available Panicum adspersum Map not Available Panicum aegyptiacum Media not available Map not Available Panicum aequinerve Media not available Map not Available Panicum afzelii Map not Available Panicum alabamense Map not Available Panicum alakaiense Map not Available Panicum alatum Map not Available Panicum albemarlense Map not Available Panicum albomaculatum Map not Available Panicum albomarginatum Map not Available Panicum albospiculatum Media not available Map not Available Panicum altissimum Map not Available Panicum altum Map not Available Panicum amarulum Map not Available Panicum amarum Map not Available Panicum amphistemon Map not Available Panicum anabaptistum Media not available Map not Available Panicum andreanum Media not available Map not Available Panicum animarum Media not available Map not Available Panicum annulum Map not Available Panicum antidotale Map not Available Panicum apricum Media not available Map not Available Panicum aquarum Media not available Map not Available Panicum aquaticum Map not Available Panicum arctum Media not available Map not Available Panicum arcurameum Media not available Map not Available Panicum aristella Media not available Map not Available Panicum aristellum Media not available Map not Available Panicum arnacites Media not available Map not Available Panicum arundinariae Map not Available Panicum ashei Map not Available Panicum atrosanguineum Map not Available Panicum auricomum Media not available Map not Available Panicum auritum Map not Available Panicum auyanense Media not available Map not Available Panicum aztecanum Map not Available Panicum bahiense Media not available Map not Available Panicum bambusiculme Media not available Map not Available Panicum bambusifolium Media not available Map not Available Panicum barbatulum Map not Available Panicum barbatum Map not Available Panicum barbinode Map not Available Panicum barbulatum Map not Available