Panic Grass (2)
Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
Family:
Grass (Poaceae)
AKA:
Common Panic Grass, Ticklegrass, Annual
Witchgrass
Photo taken on:
August 3, 2011
Location:
White Rock, NM
Life Zones:
Plains and foothills
Habitat:
Disturbed areas
Grows over 2ft tall with tiny flowers on many slender
feathery branches. It can be bluish-green or purplish. Leaves are flat
and broad. The flower head is in a leaf sheath and fans out into a
large, open spray.
Family:
Grass (Poaceae)
AKA:
Tall Panic Grass, Wobsqua Grass, Blackbent,
Wild Redtop,
Thatchgrass
Photo taken on:
July 16, 2017
Location:
Abiquiu, NM
Life Zones:
Plains and foothills
Habitat:
Moist pastures, roadsides
Grows in a tuft to 7 feet tall with flat narrow leaves to 2 feet long. The ligules, where the leaf joins the stem, have a dense fringe of hair. The flower head is a up to 20" long, spreading and branched with egg-shaped spikelets near the ends.