Bitter Panicgrass
Panicum amarum
Bitter panicgrass is a blue-gray, rhizomatous dune grass of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, salt- and drought-tolerant and excellent for stabilizing sand.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–6 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- September, October
- Bloom colors
- brown, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, CT, DE, FL, GA, LA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, NY, SC, TX, VA