Fall Panicgrass

Panicum bartowense Scribn. & Merr. Circ. U. S. Dep. Agr
Agrost. 35: 3. 1901.
Plants simple or sparingly branching, as much as 2 meters high, erect; culms glabrous, the larger as much as 7 mm. thick; leaf -sheaths mostly longer than the internodes, papillose-hispid or papillose only ; ligule 2-3 mm. long, the cilia more or less segregated in tufts; blades 15-40 cm. long, 5-13 mm.wide, glabrous or more or less pilose above, rarely sparsely hispid beneath, rather prominently papillose on the margin near the round but scarcely cordate base ; panicles large and finally loosely spreading, 15-60 cm. long, the branches at first ascending, finally spreading, the short branchlets and short-pediceled spikelets appressed as in P. dichotomiflorum; spikelets 2.2-2.7 mm. long, the glumes and fruit as in P. dichotomiflorum.
Type locality: Bartow, Florida.
Distribution: Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, and Jamaica.