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§1 Plant
Panicum antidotale Retz.
vernacular blue panicum — species · Poaceae
§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§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.
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brooks 48047
- Cameron 48061
- Crockett 48105
- Duval 48131
- Frio 48163
- Garza 48169
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Live Oak 48297
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- Pecos 48371
- Stephens 48429
- Sutton 48435
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
§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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