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Dichanthelium villosissimum - (image 1 of 5)

Taxonomy

Family: Poaceae

Synonymous with Panicum villosissimum Nash

Habitat

Dry, often sandy soil, open woods, and prairies.

Associates

Distribution

MA west to MN and KS, south to FL and TX.

Morphology

Perennial with more or less clustered culms, 10-30 cm in flower and later to 60 cm; stems and sheaths more or less long-hairy, the sheaths with soft, spreading or reflexed hairs 2-5 mm. Leaves 3-13 mm wide and 3-10 cm long, those at the base often forming a rosette of short, relatively broad blades shorter than the cauline ones; ligule a band of hairs 3-5 mm long, conspicuously protruding from the sheath. Panicle on a hairy to glabrate peduncle, 2-6 cm, ovoid with widely divergent branches; spikelets 1.1-2.5 mm, finely hairy, ellipsoid or oblong-obovoid, 1.5-2.5 mm.

Notes

Flowers late May to June

Wetland indicator: Upland

There are many recognized varieties of this species.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

Swink, F. and G. Wilhelm. 1994. Plants of the Chicago Region.
Indiana Academy of Science. The Morton Arboretum. Lisle, Illinois.

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