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Poaceae
Smooth witchgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
Also known as Panicum amplectens, Panicum dichotomiflorum var. chloroticum, Leptoloma dichotomiflora, Panicum dichotomiflorum
Native Plants · Native Grass · Prairie Restoration · Erosion Control · Hardy · Fast Growing · Self Sufficient · Full Sun · Naturalized
Smooth witchgrass is an extremely hardy, fast-growing native grass that thrives with minimal intervention. Provide full sun and occasional deep watering during establishment, then it becomes largely self-sufficient. Ideal for prairie restorations, erosion control, and low-maintenance landscapes.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 8 hours
- Watering
- Deep watering when soil surface is dry · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- sandy loam
- Soil pH
- 4.8–7
- Temperature
- -25°F to 105°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 4b-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 3 ft – 6 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Deep
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Albania, Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, California, Central European Rus, Chile Central
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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