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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum anceps   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Coleataenia anceps

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

Panicum anceps ssp. anceps

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-001a:

Panicum anceps var. anceps   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Panicum anceps

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

Panicum anceps

 

COMMON NAME:
Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass


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image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_paan_001_lvd

        

The leaves of ssp. rhizomata tend to be hairier than those of ssp. anceps, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_paan_002_lvd

        

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm060528_077

May    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Alternate & crowded near base (no rosette), flat, 20-40cm long, 6-12mm wide, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm220607_8340

June    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm190724_0123

July    Greenville County    SC

Leaves erect to drooping tips, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm220705_8896

July    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm0508f_09

August    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm0508f_20b

August    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Split from Panicum because of its subsessile spikelets, among other things, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm0508g_24

August    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm190802_0511

August    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm230805_4727

August    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    s050821_c

August    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Rather crowded somewhat curved subsecund spikelets, set obliquely, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm230922_5551

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

Keith Bradley    kab_c_anceps_anceps_4331

September    Newberry County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm0410n_14b

October    Oconee County    SC

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm231021_6142

October    Greenville County    SC

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm231122_6929

November    Greenville County    SC

image of Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps, Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass

JK Marlow    jkm0412b_07b

December    Greenville County    SC

Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve

Panicles 15-40cm long, the slender remote branches somewhat spreading, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Panicum anceps   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coleataenia anceps

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-001a:
Panicum anceps var. anceps   FAMILY Poaceae

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

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

 

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1014

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Moist sandy woods, swamps, sloughs, roadsides, fields, waste places, often weedy, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets light green

Inflorescence a panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain purplish, blackish
Grain

 

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