Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3904

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon in NC Piedmont, rare elsewhere

Look for it in dry sandy or rocky soil of open woods, dry grasslands, and barrens, and glades over serpentine, limestone, calcareous shales, and other high pH dry soils, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

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

 

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



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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
 Dichanthelium annulum   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
 Dichanthelium dichotomum ssp. mattamuskeetense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-045?:
 Panicum dichotomum   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Panicum annulum

 

COMMON NAME:
 Ringed Witchgrass

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image of Dichanthelium annulum, Ringed Witchgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_paan10_001_lvd

        

image of Dichanthelium annulum, Ringed Witchgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_paan10_002_lhd

        

image of Dichanthelium annulum, Ringed Witchgrass

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_dich_annulum1

August    Stanly County    NC

Tends to be a low-growing, rather spreading plant, not bolt-upright, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.