Panicum hemitomon - Wikipedia
Panicum hemitomon is a species of grass known by the common name maidencane. It is native to North America, where it occurs along the southeastern coastline from New Jersey to Texas. [2] It is also present in South America.
Description: Maidencane is a warm season, rhizomatous, perennial, grass that grows from 2 to 5 feet in height. Its leaves are alternate with over lapping sheaths that grasp the stem and extend at approximately 35 degree angles. Maidencane is smooth and hairless with a membranous ligule.
It is a warm season, aquatic or sub-aquatic, extensively rhizomatous perennial that forms almost pure stands. The culms are glabrous and range in heights of 3 to 5 feet. The leaf sheaths are overlapping, glabrous to greatly pubescent. The margins are generally ciliate.
Maidencane: A Guide to Identification, Control, and Environmental ...
2024年4月22日 · Maidencane (Panicum hemitomon) is a common plant in the southeastern United States. It’s a tough plant that can quickly spread and become a problem for native plants. But it also serves as an important food source for wildlife and helps stabilize soil along waterways.
Panicum hemitomon - FNPS
Larval host for clouded skipper (Lerema accius) and Delaware skipper (Anatrytone logan) butterflies. Native Habitats: Basin marsh (maidencane marsh), ponds, streams, sloughs, swamps, wet disturbed sites, sandhill.
USDA Plants Database
The PLANTS Database includes the following 25 data sources of Panicum hemitomon Schult.
Panicum hemitomon. Maidencane is a perennial, warm season, native range grass, spread by creeping rhizomes. It has erect stems and grows two to six feet tall. Leaf blades are wide by 6-10 inches in length. The leaves are smooth and free of hairiness, stem internodes are covered with a moderate pubescence.
What Is Maidencane Grass - Gardening Know How
2021年8月12日 · Maidencane (Panicum hemitomon) grows wild in much of the southeastern United States. While it is an important wild food for animals, the tenacious rhizomes spread readily and quickly and can pose a threat to native plants.
Panicum hemitomon
This information is for the genera Panicum and Dicanthelium with note that, because of abundance and distribution, it is one of the country's most important food sources for ground-feeding songbirds and gamebirds.
Maidencane (Panicum hemitomon) - iNaturalist
Panicum hemitomon is a species of grass known by the common name maidencane. It is native to North America, where it occurs along the southeastern coastline from New Jersey to Texas. It is also present in South America.