3899

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, uncommon in GA, rare in Piedmont

Look for it in moist to dry sandy or loamy pinelands, maritime forests, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets light green

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain purplish, blackish
Grain

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p702

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Coleataenia anceps ssp. rhizomata   FAMILY Poaceae

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum anceps   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 029-81-001b:
Panicum anceps var. rhizomatum   FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Panicum anceps ssp. rhizomatum