Species

Panicum capillare

Common Name(s)

witchgrass

Authority

Panicum capillare L.

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

PANCAP

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

Structural Class

Grasses

Similar Taxa

Annual with fibrous roots, reproducing by seeds. Stems 25 to 75 cm tall, often spreading and branched. Leaves and especially the leaf sheaths covered with dense soft hairs. Panicle much branched, becoming spreading and open at maturity, often breaking from stem and blown about by wind. (Wax, Fawcett and Isely 1981)

Year Naturalised

1916

Origin

North America

Seed
Seeds 1.5 mm long, greenish or greyish, shiny, smooth, readily separated from hulls when ripe. (Wax, Fawcett and Isely 1981)

Dispersal
Wind.

This page last updated on 29 Mar 2010