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        Species - Panic Grass - Dichanthelium acuminatum

Panic Grass - Dichanthelium acuminatum

Other Names: Panicum acuminatum, Dichanthelium lanuginosum, Panicum lanuginosum, Panicum occidentale

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Status Under Review

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SU

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C-value: 9

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General Description

Stems 10–30 cm. Leaves: blades 5–10 mm wide, usually <8 times longer than wide, ligule 2–6 mm long. Inflorescence an open panicle 3–8 cm long. Spikelets 1.5–2 mm long; glumes hairy, first 0.5–0.75 mm long, second 1.5–2 mm long. Lemmas: fertile lemma blunt, globe-like. Our plants are subspecies sericeum (Lavin in Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Range Comments

Throughout most of North America; subspecies sericeum is more narrowly confined to the U.S. in the Rocky Mountain states, UT, CO, WY, ID and MT (Lavin in Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database

Number of Observations: 3

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Recency

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Habitat

Often forming dense stands on wet soils around edges of hot springs (Lavin in Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

References

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- Lesica, P., M. T. Lavin, and P. F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
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Citation for data on this website:
Panic Grass — Dichanthelium acuminatum. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on July 20, 2018, from http://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PMPOA24020