Dichanthelium caerulescens (Hackel ex A.S. Hitchcock) Correll. Common name: Blue Witchgrass. Phenology: Jun-Oct. Habitat: Marshes, swamps, wet pine savannas, maritime wet grasslands, inner-dune depression meadows and swales, coastal prairies, damp sandy soil. Distribution: S. NJ to NC and GA, and from FL to w. LA (Early 2022); Bahamas and West Indies.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: Not treated by FNA, where it presumably would have been placed in synonymy with D. dichotomum ssp. roanokense.

Other Comments: A single specimen appears to exist from Baker County, GA (GA262191).

Synonymy ⓘ: = Bah, Va, LeBlond (2001a); = Panicum caerulescens Hack. ex Hitchc. — F, HC, S, SFla; < Dichanthelium dichotomum (L.) Gould ssp. roanokense (Ashe) Freckmann & Lelong — FNA25; < Dichanthelium dichotomum (L.) Gould var. dichotomum — K4, Gould & Clark (1978); < Panicum dichotomum L. — C, GW1, RAB; < Panicum dichotomum L. var. roanokense (Ashe) Lelong — Lelong (1984); < Panicum roanokense Ashe — G. Basionym: Panicum caerulescens Hack. ex Hitchc. 1909

Links to other floras: < Dichanthelium dichotomum ssp. roanokense - FNA25

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