Panicum hirtum Lam.

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Panicum hirtum Lam.

• Description

  Description - A delicate annual 20 to 30 cm. tall, with ovate-lanceolate clasping blades, and open panicles of pubescent spikelets about 1.5 mm. long, set obliquely on the pedicels.