Panicum hirticaule |
Panicum hirticaule subsp. sonorum |
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Mexican panicgrass, roughstalk witchgrass, roughstalk wltchgrass, woodland panic |
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Habit | Plants annual; glabrous or hispid, hairs papillose-based. | |||||||||
Culms | 11-110 cm, erect to decumbent; nodes shortly hirsute or glabrous. |
60-100 cm, robust; nodes hirsute, hairs papillose-based. |
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Sheaths | shorter than the internodes, greenish to purplish, glabrous or with papillose-based hairs, ciliate on 1 margin, glabrous on the other; collars hirsute; ligules 1.5-3.5 mm, of hairs; blades 3-30 cm long, 3-30 mm wide, flat, usually hirsute or sparsely pubescent, hairs papillose-based, sometimes glabrous, bases rounded to cordate-clasping, margins ciliate, cilia papillose-based, apices acute. |
hirsute, hairs papillose-based; blades 4-30 mm wide, hirsute, hairs papillose-based, cordate, clasping basally. |
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Panicles | 9-30 cm long, 5-8 cm wide, erect or nodding, partially included to well-exserted, rachises glabrous or sparsely hispid basally; primary branches usually alternate to opposite, divergent, secondary branches and pedicels confined to the distal 2/3; pulvini inconspicuous; secondary branches appressed; pedicels 9-27 mm, appressed. |
nodding. |
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Spikelets | 1.9-4 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, ovoid to almost spherical, often reddish-brown, glabrous, veins prominent, scabridulous, apices abruptly acuminate. |
3-3.3 mm; lower paleas more than 1/2 as long as the upper florets. |
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Lower glumes | 1.3-2.4 mm, 1/2 - 3/4 as long as the spikelets, 3-5-veined; upper glumes 1.8-3.3 mm, 7-11-veined; lower florets sterile; lower lemmas similar to the upper glumes, 9-veined; lower paleas 0.4-0.9 mm; upper florets 1.5-2.4 mm long, 0.4-0.8 mm wide, ellipsoid, smooth or conspicuously papillate, shiny, stramineous, often with a lunate scar at the base. |
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2n | = unknown. |
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Panicum hirticaule |
Panicum hirticaule subsp. sonorum |
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Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; NV; OK; TX; WA
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Discussion | Panicum hirticaule grows in rocky or sandy soils in waste places, roadsides, ravines, and wet meadows along streams. Its range extends from southeastern California and southwestern Texas southward through Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Hispaniola to western South America and Argentina. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Panicum hirticaule subsp. sonorum has been collected only a few times. Its range extends from southern Arizona to Chiapas, Mexico. It may have originated through selection and cultivation. The Cocopa tribe of the extreme lower Colorado River region grow it for the seed, which is used for food. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 460. | FNA vol. 25, p. 462. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Panicum > subg. Panicum > sect. Panicum | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Panicum > subg. Panicum > sect. Panicum > Panicum hirticaule | ||||||||
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Synonyms | P. pampinosum | |||||||||
Name authority | J. Presl | (Beal) Freckmann & Lelong | ||||||||
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