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|accepted_name=Panicum flexile
|accepted_authority=(Gatt.) Scribn.
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|common_names=Wiry witchgrass;Panic flexible
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Panicum;Panicum subg. Panicum;Panicum sect. Panicum;Panicum flexile
|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. Panicum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Panicum sect. Panicum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Panicum flexile]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 460
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; delicate, green or yellow-green. <b>Culms</b> 10-75 cm, about 1 mm thick, simple or with erect basal branches; nodes densely pilose, hairs ascending; internodes glabrous or shortly pubescent distally. <b>Sheaths</b> longer than the internodes, green to purplish, hispid, margins sparsely ciliate; ligules 0.5-1.5 mm; blades 3-32 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, ascending to erect, linear, narrowing basally, flat or the margins involute, surfaces sparsely hirsute or pilose (rarely glabrous), hairs near the base papillose-based, margins prominent, apices acute. <b>Panicles</b> 5-45 cm long, 1-6 cm wide, at least 1/2 as long as the plants and 3 times longer than wide, open; rachises glabrous; primary branches usually alternate or subopposite, ascending to slightly divergent, secondary branches and pedicels attached to the distal 2/3; secondary branches diverging; pedicels 0.5-17 mm, ascending to appressed. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.5 - 3.7 mm long, 0.6-1.1 mm wide, narrowly ovoid, glabrous, acute; lower glumes 0.8-1.3 mm, 1/3 – 1/2 as long as the spikelets, acuminate; upper glumes 2.3-3.3 mm, 7-9-veined, exceeding the upper florets by about 0.6 mm; lower florets sterile; lower lemmas 2.2-2.7 mm, exceeding the upper florets by about 0.6 mm, 7- or 9-veined, apices scabridulous, pointed; lower paleas absent; upper florets 1.6-1.7 mm long, about 0.6 mm wide, usually smooth, usually pale, sometimes becoming dark at maturity. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ala.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Pa.;W.Va.;D.C.;Wis.;Ont.;Que.;Fla.;N.J.;Iowa;N.Dak.;S.Dak.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Va.;Ark.;Vt.;Ga.;Mass.;Conn.;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Panicum flexile</i> grows in fens and other calcareous wetlands, in dry, calcareous or mafic rock barrens, and in open woodlands, especially on limestone derived soils. It is restricted to the Flora region.</p>
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name=Panicum flexile
|authority=(Gatt.) Scribn.
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|parent rank=section
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Ala.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Pa.;W.Va.;D.C.;Wis.;Ont.;Que.;Fla.;N.J.;Iowa;N.Dak.;S.Dak.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Va.;Ark.;Vt.;Ga.;Mass.;Conn.;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;S.C.
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|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Panicum
|subgenus=Panicum subg. Panicum
|section=Panicum sect. Panicum
|species=Panicum flexile
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