Blue panicum (Panicum antidotale)

Origin:	Introduced
Use:	Perennial, warm season, introduced grass that provides good grazing for wildlife and livestock.
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Plant Description:
General	Characteristics of Blue Panicum
Life Span	Perennial
Growth Form	tall, erect to spreading, simple
Management:
Seeding Rate  40" Rows:  Broadcast:	0.8 pound pure live seed per acre 2.0 pounds pure live seed per acre
Planting Date	March-May
Planting Depth	0.25 inch
pH requirement	6.0 to 8.0
Rainfall requirement	15 to 24 inches
Soil texture  Sandy:  Loam:  Clay:	Moderate High High
Cold Tolerance:	Low
General	Provides good grazing for wildlife and livestock.
ID Features:	This 48-to 54-inch tall bunchgrass has coarse stems growing from a dense crown of thick, short, bulbous rhizomes. The lower part of the stem has large nodes and internodes with branches coming from the nodes. Leaves are abundant, 7 to 12 inches long and flat with a heavy midrib on the lower side. Terminal panicles are long, loose, open and usually erect, but slightly drooping at maturity. The spikelets are greenish-yellow, very slick and shiny in appearance and are borne on the tip end of rather long seed branches.
Special Notes:	It can cause prussic acid poisoning in livestock at certain stages of growth.