Dichanthelium acuminatum (Swartz) Gould & C.A. Clark var. lindheimeri (Nash) Gould & C.A. Clark. Common name: Lindheimer's Witchgrass. Phenology: May-Sep. Habitat: Open or cut-over woods, thickets, fields, meadows, and shores, often on wet soils. Distribution: NS west to MB, south to FL and MO, west to s. CA.

ID notes: Internodes as well as sheaths often nearly glabrous. Panicle axis sometimes sparsely pilose at branch nodes, but otherwise glabrous.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Il, Va, Freckmann (1981); = Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark ssp. lindheimeri (Nash) Freckmann & Lelong — FNA25; = Dichanthelium lindheimeri (Nash) Gould — Mi, NY; < Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark — Pa; < Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark var. acuminatum — Gould & Clark (1978); > Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark var. lindheimeri (Nash) Gould & C.A.Clark — Gould & Clark (1978); ? Dichanthelium lanuginosum (Elliott) Gould var. lindheimeri (Nash) Harvill; > Panicum acuminatum Sw. var. lindheimeri (Nash) Lelong — Lelong (1984); < Panicum lanuginosum Elliott — RAB; > Panicum lanuginosum Elliott var. lindheimeri (Nash) Fernald — F; >< Panicum lanuginosum Elliott var. lindheimeri (Nash) Fernald — C, G; > Panicum lanuginosum Elliott var. septentrionale Fernald — C, F, G; > Panicum lindheimeri Nash — HC, S, WV; < Panicum spretum Schult. — GW1. Basionym: Panicum lindheimeri Nash 1897

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

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Wetland Indicator Status:

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

Heliophily ⓘ: 8