EcoFlora - Panicum

Panicum
Family: Poaceae	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: Maine Monocots \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Panicum acuminatum Map not Available Panicum agrostoides Map not Available Panicum amarum Map not Available Panicum annulum Map not Available Panicum ashei Map not Available Panicum barbulatum Map not Available Panicum bicknellii Map not Available Panicum boreale Map not Available Panicum bushii Map not Available Panicum caerulescens Map not Available Panicum calliphyllum Media not available Map not Available Panicum capillare Map not Available Panicum clandestinum Map not Available Panicum clutei Map not Available Panicum commutatum Map not Available Panicum condensum Map not Available Panicum depauperatum Map not Available Panicum dichotomiflorum Map not Available Panicum dichotomum Map not Available Panicum eatonii Map not Available Panicum equilaterale Map not Available Panicum euchlamydeum Map not Available Panicum gattingeri Map not Available Panicum joorii Map not Available Panicum lancearium Map not Available Panicum latifolium Map not Available Panicum lindheimeri Map not Available Panicum linearifolium Map not Available Panicum lithophilum Map not Available Panicum lucidum Map not Available Panicum mattamuskeetense Map not Available Panicum meridionale Map not Available Panicum microcarpon Map not Available Panicum miliaceum Map not Available Panicum mutabile Map not Available Panicum nashianum Map not Available Panicum nitidum Map not Available Panicum nudicaule Map not Available Panicum octonodum Map not Available Panicum onslowense Map not Available Panicum patentifolium Map not Available Panicum patulum Map not Available Panicum paucipilum Map not Available Panicum philadelphicum Map not Available Panicum pseudopubescens Map not Available Panicum rigidulum Map not Available Panicum roanokense Map not Available Panicum sphaerocarpon Map not Available Panicum sphagnicola Map not Available Panicum spretum Map not Available