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Dichanthelium aciculare
Also called Bristling Rosette Panic Grass
Needleleaf rosette grass (Dichanthelium aciculare, also called needleleaf witchgrass) is a small native perennial grass that forms basal rosettes of narrow leaves and grows in sandy woods and fields. It is a wild species rather than a commonly cultivated ornamental, and it does best in open, sunny, well-drained sandy ground.
Dichanthelium aciculare, commonly known as needleleaf witchgrass, is a perennial graminoid in the family Poaceae found throughout the Americas.
In the United States, D. aciculare is found from New Jersey south to northern Florida, west to Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico. It is also found in the West Indies and northern South America. It grows in sandy woods and fields.
Tapered rosette grass · Bosc's panicgrass · Deertongue · Variable panicgrass · Blood panicgrass · Cypress panicgrass · Cypress Panicgrass · Hirst's panicgrass · Woolly Panicgrass · Openflower rosette grass · Leiberg's panicum · Rough panicgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dichanthelium aciculare by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
