Taxon: Panicum obtusum Kunth

Common names:

• vine-mesquite   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• vine-mesquite grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (only USA of unknown importance fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco [n.e.], Puebla, Queretaro

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Panicum obtusum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Panicum obtusum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Panicum obtusum.

Check other web resources for Panicum obtusum Kunth:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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