Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon

Look for it in swamps, seasonally flooded soils of cypress-gum sloughs, tidal (freshwater) cypress-gum swamps, disturbed wet soils, low woods, ditches, muddy banks of streams and lakes, sinks, floodplains, and marshes, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Inflorescence a panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain purplish
Grain

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Phanopyrum gymnocarpon   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Phanopyrum gymnocarpon   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 029-81-015:
 Panicum gymnocarpon   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
 Panicum gymnocarpon

 

COMMON NAME:
 Swamp Phanopyrum, Savanna Phanopyrum, Savanna Panicgrass

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image of Phanopyrum gymnocarpon, Swamp Phanopyrum, Savanna Phanopyrum, Savanna Panicgrass

Keith Bradley    kab_p_gymnocarpon_06400

March    Collier County    FL

Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

Panicles of several to many stiffly ascending racemes along a main axis, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.