OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum rigidulum var. elongatum   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Coleataenia stipitata

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)

Coleataenia longifolia ssp. elongata

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

Panicum rigidulum ssp. elongatum

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

Panicum rigidulum var. elongatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-003:

Panicum stipitatum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Panicum agrostoides var. elongatum

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

Panicum stipitatum

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

Panicum stipitatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH -

Panicum elongatum

 

COMMON NAME:
Tall Flat Panicgrass, Stalked Panicgrass


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image of Coleataenia pulchra, Tall Flat Panicgrass, Stalked Panicgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_past12_001_lvd

        

image of Coleataenia pulchra, Tall Flat Panicgrass, Stalked Panicgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_past12_002_lvd

        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum rigidulum var. elongatum   FAMILY Poaceae

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

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)
Coleataenia longifolia ssp. elongata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Panicum rigidulum ssp. elongatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Panicum rigidulum var. elongatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-003:
Panicum stipitatum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Panicum agrostoides var. elongatum

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Panicum elongatum

 

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4806

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: marshes, low woods, ditches, swamps, shores, meadows, beaver marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Piedmont, uncommon in Mountains & Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], not rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets usually purplish

Inflorescence a panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain

 

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