Dichanthelium hirstii

Dichanthelium hirstii is a species of grass known by the common name Hirst's panic grass. It is native to the eastern United States, where it is extant in Delaware, New Jersey, and North Carolina. It is extirpated in Georgia.[1]

Dichanthelium hirstii

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Genus: Dichanthelium
Species:
D. hirstii
Binomial name
Dichanthelium hirstii
(Swallen) Kartesz
Synonyms

Panicum hirstii

This grass produces small tufts or large clumps of stems which can be up to a meter tall in some areas. The inflorescence is a panicle of small spikelets that grow pressed against the stem.[1]

This grass grows in ponds in the Pine Barrens on the coastal plain of New Jersey and on coastal grasslands in North Carolina. When it occurred in Georgia it grew in cypress swamps. It is a plant of seasonally wet habitat and population numbers vary from year to year.[2]

References

  1. "Dichanthelium hirstii". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  2. Dichanthelium hirstii. Archived 2011-10-26 at the Wayback Machine Center for Plant Conservation.
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