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Dichanthelium leucothrix
Also called Red Brown Panic Grass
Rough panicgrass (Dichanthelium leucothrix, also called rough witchgrass) is a small native perennial grass of the Americas that forms basal rosettes in moist sandy, peaty or mucky soils. It suits wet, boggy spots and naturalistic or rain garden plantings rather than dry lawns.
Dichanthelium leucothrix, commonly known as rough witchgrass, is a species of perennial graminoid in the family Poaceae found throughout the Americas.
In the United States, rough witchgrass is found in southern New Jersey south to Florida and west to Texas. It is also found in the West Indies and northern South America. It grows in wet sandy, peaty, or mucky soil of pinelands and depression marshes.
Needleleaf rosette grass · 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
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dichanthelium leucothrix 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.
