4298

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in GA Piedmont & NC, rare in GA Coastal Plain & SC

Look for it in glades, barrens, desiccated pondshores, riversides, and other rocky or dry sandy soil of open woods and roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked (plants lacking a rosette of overwintering basal leaves)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain yellowish or olivaceous
Grain

 

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

• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p687
• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p689

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Panicum philadelphicum ssp. philadelphicum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum philadelphicum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Panicum philadelphicum var. philadelphicum

INCLUDING & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Panicum tuckermannii

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Panicum capillare var. sylvaticum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-013:
Panicum philadelphicum   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum philadelphicum

INCLUDING Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum tuckermanii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Panicum philadelphicum