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Dichanthelium dichotomum
Also called Forked rosette-panicgrass, Rosette Panic Grass, Cypress witchgrass, Forked panicgrass, Forked Panic Grass, Forked Witchgrass, Small Fruited Panicgrass
Cypress panicgrass is a perennial woodland and meadow grass native across much of the Americas, forming basal rosettes with branching stems. It is a wild grass rather than a common garden plant, and it thrives in moist, shaded or partly shaded conditions.
Dichanthelium dichotomum is a species of perennial graminoid in the family Poaceae that is found throughout the Americas.
The variety D. dichotomum var. dichotomum is found from southern Canada and Michigan south to Florida and Texas. It grows in wet-mesic to dry woods, thickets, and woodland openings. Another variety, D. dichotomum var. nitidum (Lam.) is found from Pennsylvania and New Jersey south to Florida and west to Missouri and Texas. It is also found in The Bahamas, West Indies, and from Mexico south to Venezuela. This variety grows in moist sandy or peaty soil of wet pine savannas and pocosin ecotones, as well as marshes, swamps, and wet meadows near the coast. It is fire tolerant.
Needleleaf rosette grass · Tapered rosette grass · Bosc's panicgrass · Deertongue · Variable panicgrass · Blood panicgrass · Cypress Panicgrass · Hirst's panicgrass · Woolly Panicgrass · Openflower rosette grass · Leiberg's panicum · Rough panicgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dichanthelium dichotomum 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.
