Bitter Panicgrass
Panicum amarum
Bitter panicgrass is a blue-gray, rhizomatous dune grass of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, salt- and drought-tolerant and excellent for stabilizing sand.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 5–5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- white, orange, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, CT, DE, FL, GA, LA, MA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NY, RI, SC, TX, VA
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