Panicum Capillare Adalah Spesies Tumbuhan Yang Tergolong Ke Dalam Famili Poaceae. Spesies

Panicum capillare
adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Poaceae. Spesies

ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Poales. Spesies Panicum capillare sendiri merupakan
bagian dari genus Panicum. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh L..
Klasifikasi ilmiah
Kerajaan: Plantae
Divisi: Tracheophyta
Kelas: Liliopsida
Ordo: Poales
Famili: Poaceae
Genus: Panicum
Spesies: Panicum capillare
Nama binomial
Panicum capillare L.
Switch Grass
Panicum virgatum
Grass family (Poaceae)
Description: This perennial grass is 3-6' tall and more or less erect; usually it
forms tufts of leafy culms that are erect to ascending. The culms are light to
medium green (less often light blue and glaucous), terete, glabrous, and fairly
stout. Several alternate leaves occur along the entire length of each culm;
their blades are ascending to widely spreading. The leaf blades are up to 15
mm. across and 2' long; they are usually medium green (less often light blue
and glaucous), hairless to mostly hairless, and either flat or slightly indented
along their midveins. The leaf sheaths are about the same color as the blades
and hairless; they are open at their apices, forming a V-shape. The ligules
have bands of white hairs, while the nodes are swollen and often dark-
colored.
Each fertile culm terminates in an inflorescence that is 7-20" long and

about one-half as much across when it is fully open. This inflorescence is an
airy panicle of spikelets; it is broader toward the bottom than the top and
pyramidal in outline. Along the rachis (central stalk) of the inflorescence,
there are either solitary lateral branches or pseudo-whorls of 2-3 lateral
branches. The ascending to widely spreading branches divide into branchlets
and pedicellate spikelets. The rachis, lateral branches, branchlets, and
pedicels are light green (rarely light blue and glaucous), glabrous, and
slender; they are straight, slightly curved, or slightly wiry. During the period
of bloom, the spikelets are 3-5 mm. long, light green to reddish green (rarely
light blue and glaucous), lanceoloid in shape, and glabrous. Each spikelet has
2 glumes, 2 lemmas (one fertile and the other sterile), a palea, and a perfect
floret. The smaller glume is about two-thirds of the length of the spikelet,
while the remaining glume and sterile lemma are the same length as the
spikelet. The glumes and sterile lemma are ovate, convex along their outer
surfaces, longitudinally veined, and narrowly acute at their tips. The fertile
lemma is 2.5–3.5 mm. long, ovate, convex along its outer surface, veinless,
membranous, and acute at its tip.
The perfect floret of each spikelet consists of 3 stamens, 2 stigmas, and

an ovary. The blooming period occurs during mid-summer, lasting about 1-2
weeks. The florets are cross-pollinated by the wind. Afterwards, the spikelets
of the inflorescence become light tan and fall in their entirety to the ground.
The grains have adherent pericarps. The root system is fibrous and
rhizomatous; it can penetrate up to 10 ft. into the ground. Reproduction is by
seed and from clonal offsets of the rhizomes.
Cultivation: The preference is partial to full sunlight, moist to mesic

conditions, and deep fertile soil. However, this robust grass can tolerate
practically any kind of soil and it will adapt to drier conditions. Most growth
and development occurs during the summer. This grass can spread
aggressively, therefore it should not be over-planted.
Range & Habitat: The native Switch Grass is a common plant that has been
found in most areas of Illinois, except for a few counties in the southern half
of the state (see Distribution Map). Habitats include black soil prairies, clay
prairies, sand prairies, typical savannas and sandy savannas, open woodlands,
rocky bluffs, sand dunes, edges of marshes, sandy pannes, banks of rivers
and ponds, prairie restorations, areas along railroads, roadsides, ditches, and
abandoned fields. Because of its above-average tolerance of salt, this species
can become the dominant grass along little-mowed roadsides where salt is
applied during the winter. Like other prairie species, this native grass recovers
readily from occasional wildfires. It is more tolerant of disturbance and habitat
degradation than most prairie grasses. Sometimes Switch Grass is cultivated
in gardens as an ornamental plant.
Faunal Associations: Various insects feed on Switch Grass and

other Panicum spp. (Panic Grasses). These include the caterpillars of such
skippers as Atrytone logan (Delaware Skipper), Hesperia leonardus (Leonard's
Skipper), Hesperia sassacus (Indian Skipper), Poanes hobomok (Hobomok
Skipper), Polites themistocles (Tawny-edged Skipper), and Wallengrenia
egremet (Northern Broken-Dash). Other insect feeders include the larvae of
grass leaf-miner moths (Elachista spp.), the larvae of gall flies, plants bugs
(Collaria spp.), stink bugs, Sipha flava (Yellow Sugar Cane Aphid) and other
aphids, leafhoppers (Graminella spp., Polyamia spp.), mealybugs, leaf beetles,
thrips (Chirothrips spp.), and grasshoppers. See the Insect Table for a more
complete list of these species. The seeds of Switch Grass and other Panicum
spp. (Panic Grasses) are eaten by a variety of birds, including wetland birds,
upland gamebirds, and granivorous songbirds (see the Bird Table for a listing
of these species). The seeds of these grasses are also eaten by the Prairie
Deer Mouse and wild House Mouse (Whitaker, 1966). The very young foliage
of this grass is edible to cattle and other hoofed mammalian herbivores
(Georgia, 1913). Because Switch Grass remains upright during the winter and
often forms large clumps, it provides good cover for various birds and
mammals during this time of year.
Photographic Location: A wildflower garden at Crystal Lake Park in

Urbana, Illinois, and along a railroad in Savoy, Illinois.
Comments: This is one of the dominant grasses of the tallgrass prairie. Like

the other dominant grasses, Switch Grass (Panicum virgatum) has a C4
metabolism that enables it to withstand summer weather that is hot and dry.
This is the tallest and most robust panic grass (Panicum sp.) in Illinois, and it
can be distinguished from most of the others by its size. One common species
with a similar appearance that resembles a small specimen of Switch Grass is
Fall Panicum (Panicum dichotomiflorum). This latter species is hairless or
mostly hairless like Switch Grass, but its spikelets are smaller in size (2-3
mm.). Furthermore, the first glumes of Fall Panicum are about one-fourth the
length of their spikelets, while the first glumes of Switch Grass are about two-
thirds the length of their spikelets. Other tall-growing Panic Grasses have
hairier sheaths and/or leaves, and they also have smaller spikelets than
Switch Grass. With increases in the price of gasoline, Switch Grass has been
evaluated as a possible source of alcohol that could be used as an alternative
fuel. Apparently, it can produce more alcohol per acre than corn and doesn't
require replanting in the spring because of its perennial habit. However, the
bulkiness of its foliage could impede efficient shipping and processing.

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Panicum capillare

adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Poaceae. Spesies

Spesies: Panicum capillare

Each fertile culm terminates in an inflorescence that is 7-20" long and

The perfect floret of each spikelet consists of 3 stamens, 2 stigmas, and

Cultivation: The preference is partial to full sunlight, moist to mesic

Faunal Associations: Various insects feed on Switch Grass and

Photographic Location: A wildflower garden at Crystal Lake Park in

Comments: This is one of the dominant grasses of the tallgrass prairie. Like

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