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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
 Panicum amarum var. amarulum   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum amarum var. amarulum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Panicum amarum var. amarulum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Panicum amarum ssp. amarulum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-007:

Panicum amarulum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Panicum amarulum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Panicum amarulum

 

COMMON NAME:
 Southern Seabeach Grass, Bitter Panicgrass

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image of Panicum amarum var. amarulum, Southern Seabeach Grass, Bitter Panicgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_paam6_001_lvd

        

image of Panicum amarum var. amarulum, Southern Seabeach Grass, Bitter Panicgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_paam6_002_lhd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
 Panicum amarum var. amarulum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum amarum var. amarulum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
 Panicum amarum var. amarulum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
 Panicum amarum ssp. amarulum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-007:
 Panicum amarulum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
 Panicum amarulum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Panicum amarulum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3893

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Coastal dunes and shores, sand-flats, and longleaf pine sandhills (by introduction), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked (plants lacking a rosette of overwintering basal leaves)

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes short, stout (plants in clumps)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain

 

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