Panicum yadkinense Ashe

  • Authority

    Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Panicum yadkinense Ashe

  • Description

    Species Description - Culms few, erect, or geniculate at base, 6–10 dm, glabrous; sheaths glabrous or sparsely ciliate, especially distally, those of the primary stems usually with pale, glandular spots on the back; blades thin, bright green, 6–12 mm wide, glabrous, or sparsely ciliate at base; primary panicle 6–10 cm, about as wide, its lower branches ascending; spikelets ellipsoid, pointed, glabrous, 2–2.5 mm; first glume subacute, two-fifths as long; second glume and sterile lemma distinctly surpassing the fr; autumnal phase erect or nearly so, sparsely and loosely branched from the middle nodes, the branches 1–2 dm, the blades 2–5 cm × 2–5 mm, the panicles much reduced, about equaling the uppermost lvs; 2n=18. Moist or wet woods; N.J. to s. Ill., s. to Ga. and La. Vegetatively resembling luxuriant plants of no. 30 [Panicum dichotomum L.].