. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. WOOLLY PANICUM Panicum lanuginosum Ell. Woolly panicum is most abundant on moist, sandy soils. Like low grasses in general, it withstands heavier grazing than most tall species. It is grazed mainly in winter and early spring, when other green forage is scarce. Plants have three seasonal phases. The winter phase is a rosette with leaves about 1 inch long and V4 inch wide. In the spring phase, blades are 2 to 4 inches long, about V4 inch wide, and spaced alternately along erect stems that may reach 2 feet. Ea
. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. WOOLLY PANICUM Panicum lanuginosum Ell. Woolly panicum is most abundant on moist, sandy soils. Like low grasses in general, it withstands heavier grazing than most tall species. It is grazed mainly in winter and early spring, when other green forage is scarce. Plants have three seasonal phases. The winter phase is a rosette with leaves about 1 inch long and V4 inch wide. In the spring phase, blades are 2 to 4 inches long, about V4 inch wide, and spaced alternately along erect stems that may reach 2 feet. Each stem terminates in a panicle 2 to 4 inches long. Whereas fall and winter foliage is only slightly hairy, the leaves, stems, and spikelets of the spring phase are conspicuously hairy. In the fall phase, leaves are about 1 inch long and Vs inch wide. Densely clustered at the branch tips, they practically conceal the terminal panicles, which are about 1 inch long. Other panicums may closely resemble woolly panicum. Two of these, P. thurowii Scribn. & Smith and P. villosissimum Nash, can be distinguished only by careful taxonomic study. They generally grow on drier sites than woolly panicum, but the three are probably associated in some areas. For practical purposes, all can usually be classed as woolly panicums. Range : Texas and Arkansas to Florida and Ten- nessee. Perennial. Vernal phase grayish olive green; culms 40-70 cm. tall, in large clumps, slender, spreading, densely villous, nodes villous, often with a glabrous ring below; sheaths shorter than the internodes, soft-villous; ligule of hairs 2-5 mm. long; blades 5-10 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide with the uppermost smaller, ascending or spreading, acuminate, upper surface of mixed short and long soft hairs, lower surface velvety pubescent; inflorescence an exserted panicle 6-12 cm. long with a slender, sinuous, pubescent axis, branches ascending or spreading; spikelets mm. long, obovoid- elliptic, pubescent. Autumn
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