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Common name: warty panicgrass
 
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''Panicum verrucosum'' and annual graminoid species.
  
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==

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Panicum verrucosum
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae ⁄ Gramineae
Genus: Panicum
Species: P. verrucosum
Binomial name
Panicum verrucosum
Muhl.
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Natural range of Panicum verrucosum from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Description

Common name: warty panicgrass

Panicum verrucosum and annual graminoid species.

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

P. verrucosum is found in cut-burned areas of a chamaecyparis thyoides stand in the Great Dismal Swamp (McKinley et al. 1979).

Phenology

Annual grass (Kirkman and Sharitz 1994).

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

– Significant increase in abundance after tilling(soil disturbance) and abundant in the seed banks (Kirkman and Sharitz 1994).

Fire ecology

Pollination

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

McKinley, C. E. and F. P. Day (1979). "Herbaceous production in cut-burned, uncut-burned and control areas of chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) BSP (Cupressaceae) stand in the Great Dismal Swamp." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 106: 20-28.

Kirkman, L. K. and R. R. Sharitz (1994). "Vegetation disturbance and maintenance of diversity in intermittently flooded Carolina bays in South Carolina." Ecological Applications 4: 177-188.