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Plant IdentificationCommon name: guinea grass, buffalograss, green panicgrassBotanical Name: Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Panicum maximum)Family name: PoaceaeLocation: Richmond, NSWDate: 21st March 2009Collector: John PoulakisHabitat: A perennial grass, clumping to m high. Grows around disturbed sites, including roadsides, and particularlyuntended areas. Deep, dense fibrous root system allows it to survive long drought periods.Economic significance: Can withstand heavy continuous grazing and is a useful fodder species. It can foster soil erosion in invaded areas. Continued use as a fodder may lead to invasion of areas inaccessible to livestock, and into native areas. A fire hazard in dry periods.
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Hkonakona, Kkonakona (Niihau name)Poaceae (Gramineae)Endemic to the Hawaiian IslandsOahu (Cultivated)This species has been referred to as a "good forage" grass. In 1957, Botanist Otto Degener noted that "P. torridum is plentiful enough locally to be of some value as forage."Sadly, these statements have proved to be true and as a result native Hawaiian grasses are now not as common as in the past. Competition with introduced grasses, fires and over grazing by ungulates have greatly reduced our native grasses and grasslands.Flowering head closeup
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Verges Creek, New South Wales, Australia
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close up image of Panicum leibergii PRAIRIE PANIC GRASS at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing several specimen after blooming with their distinctive wavy stalks
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Plant IdentificationCommon name: guinea grass, buffalograss, green panicgrassBotanical Name: Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Panicum maximum)Family name: PoaceaeLocation: Richmond, NSWDate: 21st March 2009Collector: John PoulakisHabitat: A perennial grass, clumping to m high. Grows around disturbed sites, including roadsides, and particularlyuntended areas. Deep, dense fibrous root system allows it to survive long drought periods.Economic significance: Can withstand heavy continuous grazing and is a useful fodder species. It can foster soil erosion in invaded areas. Continued use as a fodder may lead to invasion of areas inaccessible to livestock, and into native areas. A fire hazard in dry periods.
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Lauehu or Niihau panicgrassPoaceae (Gramineae)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Niihau, extinct; Kauai, extant)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers
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Arakoon, New South Wales, Australia
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close up image of Panicum leibergii PRAIRIE PANIC GRASS at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a single specimen at full bloom showing the purplish stigma extending from the seed pod and the stem-clasping leaf blades
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Plant IdentificationCommon name: guinea grass, buffalograss, green panicgrassBotanical Name: Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Panicum maximum)Family name: PoaceaeLocation: Richmond, NSWDate: 21st March 2009Collector: John PoulakisHabitat: A perennial grass, clumping to m high. Grows around disturbed sites, including roadsides, and particularlyuntended areas. Deep, dense fibrous root system allows it to survive long drought periods.Economic significance: Can withstand heavy continuous grazing and is a useful fodder species. It can foster soil erosion in invaded areas. Continued use as a fodder may lead to invasion of areas inaccessible to livestock, and into native areas. A fire hazard in dry periods.
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Lauehu or Niihau panicgrassPoaceae (Gramineae)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Niihau, extinct; Kauai, extant)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)
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Pelican Island, New South Wales, Australia
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Plant IdentificationCommon name: guinea grass, buffalograss, green panicgrassBotanical Name: Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Panicum maximum)Family name: PoaceaeLocation: Richmond, NSWDate: 21st March 2009Collector: John PoulakisHabitat: A perennial grass, clumping to m high. Grows around disturbed sites, including roadsides, and particularlyuntended areas. Deep, dense fibrous root system allows it to survive long drought periods.Economic significance: Can withstand heavy continuous grazing and is a useful fodder species. It can foster soil erosion in invaded areas. Continued use as a fodder may lead to invasion of areas inaccessible to livestock, and into native areas. A fire hazard in dry periods.
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Lauehu or Niihau panicgrassPoaceae (Gramineae)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Niihau, extinct; Kauai, extant)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)
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Plant IdentificationCommon name: guinea grass, buffalograss, green panicgrassBotanical Name: Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Panicum maximum)Family name: PoaceaeLocation: Richmond, NSWDate: 21st March 2009Collector: John PoulakisHabitat: A perennial grass, clumping to m high. Grows around disturbed sites, including roadsides, and particularlyuntended areas. Deep, dense fibrous root system allows it to survive long drought periods.Economic significance: Can withstand heavy continuous grazing and is a useful fodder species. It can foster soil erosion in invaded areas. Continued use as a fodder may lead to invasion of areas inaccessible to livestock, and into native areas. A fire hazard in dry periods.
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Lauehu or Niihau panicgrassPoaceae (Gramineae)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Niihau, extinct; Kauai, extant)Oahu (Cultivated)
nativeplants.hawaii.edu
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Plant IdentificationCommon name: guinea grass, buffalograss, green panicgrassBotanical Name: Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Panicum maximum)Family name: PoaceaeLocation: Richmond, NSWDate: 21st March 2009Collector: John PoulakisHabitat: A perennial grass, clumping to m high. Grows around disturbed sites, including roadsides, and particularlyuntended areas. Deep, dense fibrous root system allows it to survive long drought periods.Economic significance: Can withstand heavy continuous grazing and is a useful fodder species. It can foster soil erosion in invaded areas. Continued use as a fodder may lead to invasion of areas inaccessible to livestock, and into native areas. A fire hazard in dry periods.
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Plant IdentificationCommon name: guinea grass, buffalograss, green panicgrassBotanical Name: Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Panicum maximum)Family name: PoaceaeLocation: Richmond, NSWDate: 21st March 2009Collector: John PoulakisHabitat: A perennial grass, clumping to m high. Grows around disturbed sites, including roadsides, and particularlyuntended areas. Deep, dense fibrous root system allows it to survive long drought periods.Economic significance: Can withstand heavy continuous grazing and is a useful fodder species. It can foster soil erosion in invaded areas. Continued use as a fodder may lead to invasion of areas inaccessible to livestock, and into native areas. A fire hazard in dry periods.
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Lauehu or Niihau panicgrassPoaceae (Gramineae)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Niihau, extinct; Kauai, extant)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)
nativeplants.hawaii.edu
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Plant IdentificationCommon name: guinea grass, buffalograss, green panicgrassBotanical Name: Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Panicum maximum)Family name: PoaceaeLocation: Richmond, NSWDate: 21st March 2009Collector: John PoulakisHabitat: A perennial grass, clumping to m high. Grows around disturbed sites, including roadsides, and particularlyuntended areas. Deep, dense fibrous root system allows it to survive long drought periods.Economic significance: Can withstand heavy continuous grazing and is a useful fodder species. It can foster soil erosion in invaded areas. Continued use as a fodder may lead to invasion of areas inaccessible to livestock, and into native areas. A fire hazard in dry periods.
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Richmond, New South Wales, Australia