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§1 Plant
Panicum amarum Elliott
vernacular bitter panicgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Panicum
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 117 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 18–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.5
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 325,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 117 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Brunswick 51025
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Essex 51057
- Gloucester 51073
- Greensville 51081
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King George 51099
- Lancaster 51103
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Prince George 51149
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PAAM2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705089 ↗Record version
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