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§1 Plant

Panicum antidotale Retz.

vernacular blue panicum — species · Poaceae


USDA
PAAN4
GBIF
2705141
Rank
species
blue panicum (Panicum antidotale)
Platephotograph · Glenn EhrenbergCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Panicum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 38 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 38 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation specs · USDA

Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.

§3a

Tolerances

Drought
Medium
Shade
High
Moisture use
High
Fire
High
Salinity
Medium
Anaerobic
None
CaCO₃
Low
Hedging
None
§3b

Climate & soil

Cold tolerance
2 °F minimum
Frost-free days
180 min.
Precipitation
15–24 in/yr
pH range
6–8
Root depth
18 in min.
Fertility need
High
Soil texture
medium, fine
§3c

Form & growth

Growth form
Bunch
Growth rate
Rapid
Lifespan
Moderate
Mature height
6 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
Moderate
Stratify
No
Seeds / lb
622,320
Propagation
seed
§3e

Use & availability

Commercial availability
Routinely Available
Nursery stock
No
Browse palatability
Medium
Graze palatability
High
Palatable, human
No
Protein potential
Medium
Lumber
No
Christmas tree
No

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 38 counties across 3 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PAAN4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2705141 ↗

Record version

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usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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