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Dichanthelium

not marked as a favorite taxon Dichanthelium leucothrix (Nash) Freckmann. Common name: Roughish Witchgrass. Phenology: May-Oct. Habitat: Wet sandy, peaty, or mucky soil of pinelands and depression marshes. Distribution: S. New Jersey south to Florida, west to Texas, also in Tennessee; West Indies and n. South America.

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Other Comments: A micrometer is needed to measure the very short puberulence (0.1 mm) that distinguishes this taxon, D. meridionale, and D. wrightianum from other members of the D. acuminatum group.

Synonymy ⓘ: = K1, Freckmann (1981), Thomas (2015); = Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark ssp. leucothrix (Nash) Freckmann & Lelong — FNA25; = Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark var. leucothrix (Nash) Lelong; = Panicum acuminatum Swartz var. leucothrix (Nash) Lelong — Lelong (1984); = Panicum leucothrix Nash — F, G, HC, RAB, S; = Panicum spretum Schult. var. leucothrix (Nash) D.B.Ward; < Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark var. implicatum (Scribn.) Gould & Clark — Gould & Clark (1978); < Dichanthelium leucothrix (Nash) Freckmann — K4; < Panicum implicatum Swartz; < Panicum leucothrix Nash — C; < Panicum spretum Schult. — GW1. Basionym: Panicum leucothrix Nash 1897

Links to other floras: = Dichanthelium acuminatum ssp. leucothrix - FNA25

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Great Plains: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Midwest: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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