Taxon: Panicum capillare L.

Common names:

• capim-mimoso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• old-witch grass   (Source: F Canada )
  
• pânico-capilare   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• panic capillaire   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• witchgrass   (Source: Grass US )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida [n. (Leon Co.)], Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Clements, D. R. et al. 2004. The biology of Canadian weeds. 127. Panicum capillare L. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 84:327–341.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas. (Grass Tex)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed) [serious in India].
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone. 1996. Revisión de las especies americanas de Panicum, subgénero Panicum, sección Panicum (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 83:233–235.
• Zuloaga, F. O. 1989. El género Panicum (Poaceae: Paniceae) en la República Argentina. III. Darwiniana 29:315–316.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Panicum capillare.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Panicum capillare. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Panicum barbipulvinatum Nash
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Panicum capillare var. occidentale Rydb.
  

Check other databases for Panicum capillare L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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