NameThatPlant.net: Dichanthelium mattamuskeetense

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dichanthelium mattamuskeetense FAMILY Poaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Dichanthelium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Dichanthelium dichotomum ssp. mattamuskeetense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of the Dichotoma group of Dichanthelium (Poaceae) (LeBlond, 2001)

Dichanthelium mattamuskeetense

INCLUDED WITHIN New combinations for Panicum ... (Poaceae) of the southeast US (Lelong, 1984)

Panicum dichotomum var. mattamuskeetense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-045?:

Panicum dichotomum FAMILY Poaceae

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

Panicum clutei

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

Panicum mattamuskeetense

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Panicum mattamuskeetense

COMMON NAME:
Mattamuskeet Witchgrass

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image of Dichanthelium mattamuskeetense, Mattamuskeet Witchgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_pacl6_001_lhd

Panicum clutei < Dichanthelium mattamuskeetense

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pama10_001_lvd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_pama10_002_lhd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dichanthelium mattamuskeetense FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Dichanthelium dichotomum ssp. mattamuskeetense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of the Dichotoma group of Dichanthelium (Poaceae) (LeBlond, 2001)
Dichanthelium mattamuskeetense

INCLUDED WITHIN New combinations for Panicum ... (Poaceae) of the southeast US (Lelong, 1984)
Panicum dichotomum var. mattamuskeetense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-045?:
Panicum dichotomum FAMILY Poaceae

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

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

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Panicum mattamuskeetense

3906

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Wet pine savannas, meadows, borders of pocosin shrub swamps, thickets, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Common in NC, uncommon in SC

map
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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

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

Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950) p651

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