Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont

Look for it in sandy woods and fields, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked, and often a basal rosette of overwintering leaves

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Early-season ("spring") panicles terminal; later "autumnal" panicles are lateral

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Grain yellowish/Purplish
Grain

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Dichanthelium aciculare   FAMILY Poaceae

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Dichanthelium aciculare   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 029-81-028:
 Panicum aciculare   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Dichanthelium aciculare ssp. aciculare

GREATER THAN Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
 Panicum aciculare

 

COMMON NAME:
 Needleleaf Witchgrass, Needleleaf Rosette Grass

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image of Dichanthelium aciculare, Needleleaf Witchgrass, Needleleaf Rosette Grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_diac_002_lvd

        

image of Dichanthelium aciculare, Needleleaf Witchgrass, Needleleaf Rosette Grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_paac11_001_lvd

        

image of Dichanthelium aciculare, Needleleaf Witchgrass, Needleleaf Rosette Grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_paac11_002_lhd