Dichanthelium leibergii |
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Leiberg's panicum, Leiberg's rosette grass, leibergs panicgrass |
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Habit | Plants cespitose, with knotty rhizomes no more than 2 mm thick. |
Culms | 24-80 cm, glabrous or puberulent; nodes sparsely, spreading-pilose; internodes mostly elongated, glabrous or puberulent; fall phase with a few suberect branches from the lower and midculm nodes, blades slightly reduced, secondary panicles partially exserted. |
Cauline leaves | 3-4; sheaths not overlapping, with ascending papillose-based hairs; ligules 0.3-0.5 mm, membranous, ciliate, cilia longer than the membranous portion; blades 5-15 cm long, 7-13 mm wide, ascending to erect, sparsely to densely pubescent with papillose-based hairs, with 9-11 prominent major veins and 25-50 minor veins, bases truncate to cordate, margins with papillose-based cilia. |
Panicles | 6-10 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, their length usually less than twice their width, eventually well-exserted, with 20-40 spikelets; branches spreading to ascending. |
Spikelets | 3.3-3.8 mm long, 1.6-2 mm wide, ellipsoid-obovoid, turgid, pubescent, hairs papillose-based, apices rounded. |
Lower glumes | about 1.8 mm, narrowly triangular; lower florets staminate; upper florets mucronate. |
Basal | rosettes well-differentiated; blades few, small, ovate to lanceolate. |
2n | = 18. |
Dichanthelium leibergii |
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Distribution |
IA; IL; IN; KS; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; NY; OH; PA; SD; WI; AB; MB; ON; SK
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Discussion | Dichanthelium leibergii grows primarily on prairie relics, but is occasionally found in sandy woodlands. It is restricted to the Flora region. The primary panicles are produced from mid-May through July, the secondary panicles from late June to September. Sterile putative hybrids with D. acuminatum and D. xantho-physum are occasionally found. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 416. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Dichanthelium > sect. Macrocarpa |
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Synonyms | Panicum leibergii |
Name authority | (Vasey) Freckmann |
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