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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Dichanthelium lucidum
FAMILY
Poaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Dichanthelium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Flora of North America
Dichanthelium dichotomum ssp. lucidum
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VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-045?:
Panicum dichotomum
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Panicum lucidum
COMMON NAME:
Bog Witchgrass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_palu4_002_lhd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_dich_lucidum2
July Scotland County NC
Cauline leaves well-distributed along culm; culms weak, soon sprawling, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Dichanthelium lucidum
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum
FAMILY
Poaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Dichanthelium dichotomum ssp. lucidum
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-045?:
Panicum dichotomum
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Panicum lucidum
3907
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare in Mountains, uncommon elsewhere
Look for it in wet meadows, sphagnous swamps, bogs, wet woods, sphagnous streamhead pocosins, baygalls, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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
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