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§1 Plant
Panicum obtusum Kunth
vernacular vine mesquite — 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
· 221 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 150 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–7
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 145,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 221 counties across 8 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Edwards 20047
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Pawnee 20145
- Reno 20155
- Rice 20159
- Rush 20165
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Washington 20201
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Colfax 35007
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Luna 35029
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
Oklahoma view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Alfalfa 40003
- Beaver 40007
- Beckham 40009
- Blaine 40011
- Carter 40019
- Cimarron 40025
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Cotton 40033
- Grady 40051
- Grant 40053
- Greer 40055
- Hughes 40063
- Kay 40071
- Lincoln 40081
- Logan 40083
- Love 40085
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- Murray 40099
- Oklahoma 40109
- Payne 40119
- Pontotoc 40123
- Roger Mills 40129
- Washington 40147
- Washita 40149
- Woods 40151
- Woodward 40153
Texas view state ↗ 115 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Aransas 48007
- Armstrong 48011
- Austin 48015
- Bailey 48017
- Bandera 48019
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Castro 48069
- Coleman 48083
- Collingsworth 48087
- Comanche 48093
- Concho 48095
- Cooke 48097
- Coryell 48099
- Cottle 48101
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dallas 48113
- Dawson 48115
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Erath 48143
- Fayette 48149
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Gray 48179
- Hale 48189
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hockley 48219
- Hood 48221
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jack 48237
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Wells 48249
- Jones 48253
- Karnes 48255
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Knox 48275
- Lamb 48279
- Lampasas 48281
- Lipscomb 48295
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Lynn 48305
- Mason 48319
- Matagorda 48321
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Menard 48327
- Midland 48329
- Moore 48341
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Real 48385
- Reeves 48389
- Refugio 48391
- Roberts 48393
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Schleicher 48413
- Shackelford 48417
- Sherman 48421
- Stephens 48429
- Sutton 48435
- Swisher 48437
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Wichita 48485
- Wilbarger 48487
- Williamson 48491
- Young 48503
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PAOB ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4117271 ↗Record version
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