Vine Mesquite
Panicum obtusum
Vine mesquite is a stoloniferous Southwestern grass that creeps over swales and washes, knitting soil together for erosion control on tough, intermittently wet ground.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.5–2.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- August, September
- Bloom colors
- brown, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- border, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AZ, CO, NM, OK, TX