See other conspecific taxa:

• Panicum amarum (0 accessions)
• Panicum amarum var. amarum (0 accessions)

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• Basionym: Panicum amarulum Hitchc. & Chase

Common names:

• bitter panic grass  (Source: Grass VarUSA) - English

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: erosion control;

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [New Jersey]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama (s.), Delaware, Florida, Georgia (s.e.), Louisiana (s.), Maryland (e.), Mississippi (s.), North Carolina (e.), South Carolina, Virginia (e.)]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Tamaulipas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Yucatán]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Bahamas, Cuba
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Honduras (e.)


Cultivated

Northern America

• United States

References:

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2. Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press. Note: Revised version of AH 170
3. Aliscioni, S. S. et al. 2003. A molecular phylogeny of Panicum (Poaceae: Paniceae): tests of monophyly and phylogenetic placement within the Panicoideae. Amer. J. Bot. 90:796-821. Note: a member of section Virgata
4. Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle
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6. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
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9. Lonard, R. I. & F. W. Judd. 2011. The biological flora of coastal dunes and wetlands: Panicum amarum S. Elliott and Panicum amarum S. Elliott var. amarulum (A.S. Hitchcock and M.A. Chase) P. Palmer. J. Coastal Res. 27:233-242.
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11. Triplett, J. K. et al. 2012. Five nuclear loci resolve the polyploid history of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) and relatives. PLoS One 7(6): e38702.
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13. Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.
14. Wunderlin, R. P. 1982. Guide to the vascular plants of central Florida Note: = Panicum amarum Elliott
15. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:311.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=103507. Accessed 1 July 2024.