Panicum 



Paniceae 



159 



50 



Map 281 



Panicum agrostoides Spreng. 



o m 



Map 283 



Panicum depauperatum Muhl. 



Spikelets 1.8-2.3 mm long, not conspicuously secund; fruit without a stalk at the base 

 (if stalked, the stalk less than 0.2 mm long) 9. P. agrostoides. 



7. Panicum anceps Michx. Map 279. This species is restricted to the 

 southern part of the state where it is infrequent and found in woodland 

 in open, wet places about ponds, swamps, and sloughs and in roadside 

 ditches. 



N. J. to Kans., southw. to Fla. and Tex. 



8. Panicum stipitatum Nash. Map 280. An infrequent grass in a few 

 counties of southern Indiana. It is usually found in hard, white clay 

 soil in wet places in swamps, clearings, fallow fields, and ditches. It is 

 frequently associated with Panicum agrostoides with which it is often 

 confused. 



Conn, to Mo., southw. to Ga. and Tex. 



9. Panicum agrostoides Spreng. Map 281. Infrequent to frequent in 

 the sandy areas of the northwestern part of the state; more frequent in 

 the southwestern part, where it usually grows in large clumps in hard, 

 white clay soil in dried-up swamps and on the borders of streams, lakes, 

 ditches, sloughs, and old canals. In our northern counties it grows in wet, 

 sandy, or muddy soil. 



Maine to Kans., southw. to Fla. and Tex.; Vancouver Island and Calif. 



5. VERRUCOSA 



Annuals, glabrous; culms weak, divaricately branching, decumbent at 

 the base ; ligule ciliate ; panicles divaricate, the branches capillary, spikelet- 

 bearing toward the ends. 



10. Panicum verrucosum Muhl. Map 282. This species is very local 

 and is found in wet or moist, sandy soil about sloughs near Lake Michigan 

 and in marshes and roadside ditches in sec. 12 of Jasper County about 

 3 miles southeast of Tefft. We have specimens from only Jasper and 



