Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Coleataenia pulchra
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
C. stipitata stands out from most members of the genus by its robust size (up to 5 feet tall) and from all by its bright rosy or rose-pink inflorescence (when mature). Learn more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum rigidulum var. elongatum
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coleataenia stipitata
SYNONYMOUS WITH A phylogenetic evaluation of Panicum sects. Agrostoidea, Megista, Prionita and Tenera (Panicoideae, Poaceae): two new genera, Stephostachys and Sorengia (Zuloaga, Scataglini, Morrone. 2010)
Coleataenia longifolia ssp. elongata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)
Panicum rigidulum ssp. elongatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Panicum rigidulum var. elongatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-003:
Panicum stipitatum FAMILY Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Panicum agrostoides var. elongatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum stipitatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Panicum stipitatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Panicum elongatum
COMMON NAME:
Tall Flat Panicgrass, Stalked Panicgrass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_past12_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_past12_002_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Coleataenia pulchra
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum rigidulum var. elongatum
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coleataenia stipitata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A phylogenetic evaluation of Panicum sects. Agrostoidea, Megista, Prionita and Tenera (Panicoideae, Poaceae): two new genera, Stephostachys and Sorengia (Zuloaga, Scataglini, Morrone. 2010)
Coleataenia longifolia ssp. elongata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Panicum rigidulum ssp. elongatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Panicum rigidulum var. elongatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-003:
Panicum stipitatum
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Panicum agrostoides var. elongatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum stipitatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Panicum stipitatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
-
Panicum elongatum
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Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Habitat: marshes, low woods, ditches, swamps, shores, meadows, beaver marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Piedmont, uncommon in Mountains & Coastal Plain
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], not rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets usually purplish
Inflorescence a panicle
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain
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