Panicum acuminatum

Western panicgrass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Western panicgrass is a California native perennial grass found in grassland and woodland habitats. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces small pale green to green-brown spikelets less than 1 millimeter wide. Growing with slender stems 30 to 60 centimeters tall, it has distinctive hair-fringed ligules 2 to 4 millimeters long at the base of its leaf sheaths. Its leaves have sheaths 2 to 7 centimeters long with delicate hair-like ligules at their margins. The plant's inflorescence features primary branches 2 to 4 centimeters long, with spikelets arranged singly at each node.

California counties: El Dorado, Los Angeles, Butte, Yuba, Shasta, Del Norte, Tuolumne, Orange, Riverside, Sonoma, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Mariposa, Plumas, Tulare, Fresno, Kern, Amador, Sacramento, Tehama, Santa Cruz

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.