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|accepted_name=Panicum antidotale
|accepted_authority=Retz.
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|common_names=Blue panicgrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Panicum;Panicum subg. Agrostoidea;Panicum sect. Antidotalia;Panicum antidotale
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Panicum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Panicum subg. Agrostoidea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Panicum sect. Antidotalia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Panicum antidotale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 482
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, rhizomatous, rhizomes about 1 cm thick, knotted, pubescent, with large, scalelike leaves. <b>Culms</b> 50-300 cm tall, 2-4 mm thick, often compressed, erect or ascending, hard, becoming almost woody; nodes swollen, glabrous or pubescent; internodes glabrous, glaucous. <b>Sheaths</b> not keeled, shorter than or equal to the internodes, glabrous or the lower sheaths at least partially pubescent, hairs papillose-based; ligules 0.3-1.5 mm; blades 10-60 cm long, 3-20 mm wide, elongate, flat, abaxial surfaces and margins scabrous, adaxial surfaces occasionally pubescent near the base, with prominent, white midveins, bases rounded to narrowed. <b>Panicles</b> 10-45 cm, to 1/2 as wide as long, open or somewhat contracted, with many spikelets; branches 4-12 cm, opposite or alternate, ascending to spreading; pedicels 0.3-2.5 mm, scabridulous to scabrous, appressed to diverging less than 45° from the branch axes. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.4-3.4 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide, ellipsoid-lanceoloid to narrowly ovoid, often purplish, glabrous, acute. <b>Lower</b> glumes 1.4-2.2 mm, 1/3 – 1/2 as long as the spikelets, 3-5-veined, obtuse; upper glumes and lower lemmas subequal, glabrous, 5-9-veined, margins scarious, acute; lower florets staminate; upper florets 1.8-2.8 mm long, 0.9-1.1 mm wide, smooth, lustrous, acute. <b>2n</b> = 18, 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ariz.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Panicum antidotale</i> is native to India. It is grown in the Flora region as a forage grass, primarily in the southwestern United States. It is now established in the region, being found in open, disturbed areas and fields.</p>
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name=Panicum antidotale
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|authority=Retz.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ariz.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Panicum
|subgenus=Panicum subg. Agrostoidea
|section=Panicum sect. Antidotalia
|species=Panicum antidotale
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