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Cypress Panicgrass

Dichanthelium ensifolium

Also called Small Leaved Witchgrass

Cypress Panicgrass
Photo: Doug Goldman. USDA-NRCS-NPDT United States, NC, Guilford Co., Greensboro, cultivated. May 10, 2011., Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
New Jersey to C. America, Cuba
Climate
subtropical

About

Dichanthelium ensifolium, the small-leaved witchgrass, is a perennial graminoid native to the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the United States

Where it grows

D. ensifolium is distributed from New Jersey south to Florida and west to eastern Texas and Arkansas. It grows in wet to mesic sandy, peaty, or mucky soils, often in open pinelands or with Sphagnum.

Other Dichanthelium plants

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 ensifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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