Taxon: Panicum virgatum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Panicum virgatum var. cubense (1 accessions)

Common names:

• Blackwell switch grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• switch grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• panic érigé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• panic vierge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Rutenhirse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; revegetator; wildlife habitat   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001; Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US; Grass VarUSA)
  
• Fuels: potential as biomass for energy generation   (fide Can J Pl Sci 86:1315-1325. 2006; web document)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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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)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba, Saskatchewan [s.e.]
  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, Montana [e. & c.], Wyoming [e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, 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, Nevada [s.], Utah [s.e.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Jalisco, Nayarit, Puebla, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Cuba

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37:381.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [with two varieties].
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16. (Grass Util Mex)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Panicum virgatum.

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

Check other databases for Panicum virgatum 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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

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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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