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Coleataenia anceps (Michx.) Soreng  

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Family: Poaceae
beaked panicgrass
[Panicum anceps Michx., morePanicum anceps var. rhizomatum (Hitchc. & Chase) Fernald, Panicum rhizomatum Hitchc. & Chase]
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The Morton Arboretum
Perennial herb with long or short rhizomes, tufted 30 cm - 1.3 m tall Leaves: alternate, two-ranked. Sheaths laterally compressed, sometimes sparsely to densely hairy. Ligules often brownish, less than 0.5 mm long, membranous. Blades upright, 10 cm - 0.5 m long, 4 - 12 mm wide, parallel-veined, sometimes softly hairy beneath, softly hairy above (at least basally). Inflorescence: a branched arrangement of spikelets (panicle), 10 - 40 cm long, one-fourth to two-thirds as wide as long, well-exserted, with relatively few, stiffly spreading or ascending branches. Fruit: a caryopsis, indehiscent, enclosed within the persistent lemma and palea. Culm: 30 cm - 1.3 m long, slightly compressed to round in cross-section. Spikelets: densely crowded on appressed branchlets, nearly stalkless, pale to yellowish green, 2 - 4 mm long, egg-shaped to narrowly ellipsoid with an often sickle-shaped and gaping apex. Glumes: unequal, herbaceous. Lower glumes one-third to one-half as long as spikelets, pointed at the apex, three-veined. Upper glumes nearly equal to lower lemmas, beaked, five-veined, keeled. Lemmas:: Lower lemmas similar to and nearly equal to upper glumes, beaked, five-veined, keeled. Upper lemmas clasping upper paleas for all their length, stiff, thick, shiny, with rolled-up margins on the upper surface. Paleas:: Lower paleas small, nearly equal to lower lemmas, transparent. Upper paleas longitudinally lined. Florets:: Lower florets sterile. Upper florets bisexual, 1.5 - 2 mm long, about 1 mm wide, to three-fourths as long as spikelets, pointed at the apex, shiny, with a tuft of minute hairs at the apex. Anthers three. Stigmas red.

Similar species: No information at this time.

Flowering: June to October

Habitat and ecology: Rare in the Chicago Region, and known only from Cook County, Illinois. It grows in low, moist areas.

Occurence in the Chicago region: native

Etymology: Panicum comes from the Latin word panis, meaning bread, or panus, meaning "ear of millet." Anceps means two-edged.

Author: The Morton Arboretum

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Culms 5-10 dm, erect, several together from long, scaly rhizomes; sheaths glabrous to densely pilose; blades 2-4 dm נ6-12 mm, glabrous to pilose on both sides; panicle pyramidal, 1-4 dm, its branches spreading or ascending; branchlets scabrous; spikelets usually crowded and subsecund, ovoid to lanceolate, 2.2-3.9 mm, often slightly falcate, usually set at an angle to the pedicel; first glume appearing erect, triangular-ovate, a third to half as long as the spikelet; second glume and sterile lemma sharply veined, acute to acuminate; 2n=18, 36. Moist, especially sandy soil; N.J. to s. O. and w. Mo., s. to the Gulf. (P. rhizomatum)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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