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Panicum capillare (panicgrass; common witchgrass; common panic grass; annual witchgrass; ticklegrass; tumble panic; tumbleweed grass; witches hair; witchgrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Panicum capillare, known by the common name witchgrass, is a species of grass. It is native plant to most of North America from the East Coast through all of the West Coast and California. It can be found as an introduced species in Eurasia, and as a weed in gardens and landscaped areas. It grows in many types of habitat.
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Infraspecies

Panicum capillare var. capillare
Panicum capillare var. minus
Panicum capillare var. philadelphicum
Panicum capillare var. soboliferum

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Structure [2]  Grass
Usage [1]  The grass can be made into brooms;
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
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Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Gonzalez-Acuna, D., Riquelme Salazar, P., Cruzatt Molina, J., Lopez Sepulveda, P., Skewes Ramm, O., Figueroa, R., & Ricardo, A. (2006). Diet of the Chilean Tinamou (Nothoprocta perdicaria) in south central Chile. Ornitología Neotropical, 17(3), 467-472.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0