Panicum oligosanthes var. scribnerianum

Scribner's panic grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Scribner's panic grass is a native perennial found in northwestern California meadows and open forest sites at elevations below 1,400 meters. Flowering from May to August, this grass produces green spikelets with distinctive orange-spotted upper glumes. Growing with stems 30 to 60 centimeters tall, it forms delicate clumps in open woodland areas. Its leaf blades are 3 to 14 centimeters long, 3 to 15 millimeters wide, with leaf sheaths ranging from 2 to 8 centimeters that are either glabrous or short-hairy. The compact inflorescence is 5 to 8 centimeters long, with spikelets arranged singly at each node.

Habitat: Meadows, open sites in forest

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: < 1400 m

Bioregions: NW

California counties: Shasta, Trinity, Humboldt, Siskiyou

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