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3902

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas

Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Look for it in maritime wet grasslands, Piedmont prairie-like barrens, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked, and often a basal rosette of overwintering leaves

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Early-season ("spring") panicles terminal; later "autumnal" panicles are lateral

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Grain yellowish
Grain

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Dichanthelium neuranthum   FAMILY Poaceae

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Dichanthelium aciculare   FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Dichanthelium aciculare ssp. neuranthum

GREATER THAN Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
 Panicum ovinum

 

COMMON NAME:
 Nerved Witchgrass

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image of Dichanthelium neuranthum, Nerved Witchgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_pane6_001_lhd

        

image of Dichanthelium neuranthum, Nerved Witchgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_paov3_001_lhd

        

image of Dichanthelium neuranthum, Nerved Witchgrass

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_dich_neuranthum2

May    Dare County    NC

Vernal panicle branches strongly ascending to erect; spikelets 1.8-2.2mm long, per Weakley's Flora.