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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Coleataenia tenera   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum tenerum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Coleataenia tenera

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)

Sorengia tenera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Panicum tenerum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Panicum tenerum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-021:

Panicum tenerum   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Panicum tenerum

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

Panicum tenerum

 

COMMON NAME:
Southeastern Panicgrass


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image of Coleataenia tenera, Southeastern Panicgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_pate3_001_lhd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Coleataenia tenera   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum tenerum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coleataenia tenera

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)
Sorengia tenera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Panicum tenerum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Panicum tenerum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-021:
Panicum tenerum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum tenerum

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4568

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Limesink ponds, depression meadows, cypress savannas, wet pinelands, bogs, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare in GA)

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LEAVES:
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], with short rhizomes

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a narrow panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain lustrous black
Grain

 

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