Panicum acuminatum var. fasciculatum

Pacific panic grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Pacific panic grass is a California native perennial found in the Central California Foothills, Sierra Nevada East, and Desert Mountains in moist places, wet meadows, seeps, and streambanks at elevations below 2,600 meters. Flowering from May to November, this plant produces delicate grass-like flowers in compact clusters 5 to 8 centimeters long. Growing with soft-hairy stems 10 to 60 centimeters tall that have papillate-based hairs, it forms dense grass-like clumps. Its leaf blades are 5 to 10 centimeters long, 5 to 12 millimeters wide, with a soft puberulent underside that gives the grass a slightly fuzzy appearance. The small spikelet flowers are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long, with an obovate to elliptic shape.

Habitat: Moist places, wet meadows, seeps, streambanks

Bloom period: May-Nov

Elevation: < 2600 m

Bioregions: CA-FP, SNE, DMtns.

California counties: San Diego, Butte, Yuba, Shasta, Sonoma, El Dorado, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Plumas, Del Norte, Trinity, Mendocino, Inyo, Lake, Los Angeles, Monterey, Amador, Placer, Calaveras, Marin, Merced, Nevada, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Napa, Mariposa, Sierra, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Tulare, Fresno, Madera, Kern, San Bernardino

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