NameThatPlant.net: Dichanthelium yadkinense

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dichanthelium yadkinense FAMILY Poaceae Go to FSUS key

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Learn more about Dichanthelium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum FAMILY Poaceae

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

Dichanthelium dichotomum ssp. yadkinense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of the Dichotoma group of Dichanthelium (Poaceae) (LeBlond, 2001)

Dichanthelium yadkinense

SYNONYMOUS WITH New combinations for Panicum ... (Poaceae) of the southeast US (Lelong, 1984)

Panicum dichotomum var. yadkinense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-045?:

Panicum dichotomum FAMILY Poaceae

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

Panicum yadkinense

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

Panicum yadkinense

COMMON NAME:
Spotted-sheath Witchgrass

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image of Dichanthelium yadkinense, Spotted-sheath Witchgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_paya2_001_lvd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_paya2_002_lhd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dichanthelium yadkinense FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Dichanthelium dichotomum ssp. yadkinense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of the Dichotoma group of Dichanthelium (Poaceae) (LeBlond, 2001)
Dichanthelium yadkinense

SYNONYMOUS WITH New combinations for Panicum ... (Poaceae) of the southeast US (Lelong, 1984)
Panicum dichotomum var. yadkinense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-81-045?:
Panicum dichotomum FAMILY Poaceae

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

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

3910

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: floodplain forests, thickets, bottomlands, and swamps, often on alluvial deposits, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Piedmont & NC Coastal Plain, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

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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

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950) p653

"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed -- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. ... It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods -- trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries ... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools -- only Uncle Sam can do that." — John Muir

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