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§1 Plant
Panicum coloratum L.
vernacular kleingrass — 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
· 27 counties across 2 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 190 min.
- Precipitation
- 19–36 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.5–8.5
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 3.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 490,000
- 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 27 counties across 2 states/territories.
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Bexar 48029
- Bosque 48035
- Brazos 48041
- Burleson 48051
- DeWitt 48123
- Edwards 48137
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Guadalupe 48187
- Jack 48237
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kleberg 48273
- Lampasas 48281
- McLennan 48309
- Menard 48327
- Mills 48333
- Mitchell 48335
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- San Patricio 48409
- Somervell 48425
- Travis 48453
- Williamson 48491
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PACO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705092 ↗Record version
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