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Cushion Tuft Panic Grass

Dichanthelium strigosum

Also called Rough Hair Witchgrass, Roughhair Rosette Grass

Cushion Tuft Panic Grass
Photo: Doug Goldman. USDA-NRCS-NPDT United States, NC, Guilford Co., Greensboro, cultivated. October 21, 2011., Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
SE. U.S.A. to Venezuela, Caribbean
Climate
subtropical

About

Dichanthelium strigosum is a perennial graminoid in the family Poaceae found in the Americas.

There are three varieties: D. strigosum var. glabrescens Griseb., D. strigosum var. leucoblepharis (Trin.) Freckmann, D. strigosum var. strigosum.

Where it grows

Dichantelium strigosum var. glabrescens is found in the southeast United States, in Georgia and Florida west to Louisiana, with disjunct populations in southeast North Carolina and northeast and southeast South Carolina. It is also found in the West Indies and Belize, and grows in bogs, low, open sandy pinelands and hammocks, and wet pine savannas and flatwoods.

Other Dichanthelium plants

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 strigosum 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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