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Panicum hirticaule
Also called Rough Stalk Witchgrass, Rough Stalked Panicgrass, Rough Stalked Witchgrass, Sauwi
Mexican panicgrass is a small annual bunchgrass native to the southwestern United States, Mexico and Central and South America, grown as a cereal crop in the American Southwest. It is a grass best suited to warm, open, disturbed ground and is usually grown from seed.
Panicum hirticaule is a species of grass known by the common names Mexican panicgrass and roughstalked witchgrass. It is also known as the Sonoran millet, and is cultivated as a cereal crop in the American Southwest.
In North America it is native to the Southwestern United States and Mexico. Its distribution extends throughout Central and South America. It grows in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas. There is evidence that it was eaten, cultivated and possibly domesticated by Native Americans.
Witchgrass · Fall panicgrass · Megathyrsus maximus · Proso millet · Little millet · Switchgrass · Panicgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Panicum hirticaule 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.
