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

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



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. lucidum

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

Dichanthelium lucidum

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 lucidum var. lucidum

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

Panicum lucidum var. opacum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Panicum lucidum

 

COMMON NAME:
Bog Witchgrass


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image of Dichanthelium lucidum, Bog Witchgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_palu4_002_lhd

        

image of Dichanthelium lucidum, Bog Witchgrass

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_dich_lucidum2

July    Scotland County    NC

Cauline leaves well-distributed along culm; culms weak, soon sprawling, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dichanthelium lucidum   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. lucidum

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

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 lucidum var. lucidum

INCLUDING Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum lucidum var. opacum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Panicum lucidum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3907

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Wet meadows, sphagnous swamps, bogs, wet woods, sphagnous streamhead pocosins, baygalls, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare in Mountains, uncommon elsewhere

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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

 

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