See other conspecific taxa:

• Panicum hirticaule (0 accessions)
• Panicum hirticaule var. verrucosum (0 accessions)

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

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

• (=) Panicum capillare var. miliaceum Vasey
• (=) Panicum hirticaule var. miliaceum (Vasey) Beetle
• (=) Panicum sonorum Beal

Common names:

• Sonoran panic  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• sowi millet  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• chiri chiri  (Source: Ann Mo BG) - Spanish
• sauhui  (Source: Grass Util Mex) - Spanish
• triguillo  (Source: Ann Mo BG) - Spanish
• zacate de año  (Source: Ann Mo BG) - Spanish
• zacate peludo perdis  (Source: Ann Mo BG) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Human food: cereal (fide F NGalicia, as Panicum hirticaule)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Baja, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Haiti
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador, Peru

References:

1. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
2. Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16
3. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
4. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
5. Ruiz-Guerrero, M. et al. 2015. A preliminary checklist of the vascular plant flora of La Guásima, southern Sinaloa, northwestern Mexico. Phytoneuron 63:24.
6. Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone. 1996. Revisión de las especies americanas de Panicum, subgénero Panicum, sección Panicum (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 83:252-253.

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=415001. Accessed 1 July 2024.