Deer Tongue Color

Deer-tongue Witchgrass is a native ornamental perennial grass found in shady moist woodland areas, in moist sandy soil, in ditches, and along roadsides. The winter rosettes of this plant make a good evergreen groundcover. Dichanthelium clandestinum is a species of grass known by the common name deertongue.

It is native to eastern North America, including eastern Canada and the eastern United States. [1][2] This species is a rhizomatous perennial grass forming clumps of hairy stems up to 1.4 meters tall. Five to 10 leaves are located along the stem.

Each is up to 25 centimeters long by 3 wide, lance. Dichanthelium clandestinum (Linnaeus) Gould. Common name: Deer-tongue Witchgrass.

Phenology: May-Oct. Habitat: Shaded to filtered woodlands, ditches and low areas, and often in moist sandy soil. Distribution: NS and QC south to n.

FL, west to IA, KA, and TX. Origin/Endemic status: Native Synonymy ⓘ: = FlGr, FNA25, Il, K4, Mi, NY, Pa, Va, Gould & Clark (1978); = Panicum clandestinum L. Facts Deer-tongue rosette -panicgrass and the other rosette -panicgrasses (Dichanthelium) produce open-pollinated (chasmogamous) flowers initially, then later in the season they produce self-pollinating (cleistogamous) flowers on small inflorescences that are usually hidden within the sheathes.

Both types of flowers produce viable seeds. This additional growth makes Deer-Tongue Grass the tallest species of the numerous cool-season panic grasses that occur in Illinois. Like many other species in this genus, Deer-Tongue Grass often blooms again later in the year by producing inflorescences that remain hidden, or at least partially hidden, in its autumnal sheaths.

Poaceae deer-tongue witchgrass Dichanthelium clandestinum Synonyms Panicum clandestinum Other Common Names deertongue, witchgrass. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status.

Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses. The leaves of deer-tongue grass are generally much longer than those of jointhead arthraxon, and the stems of deer-tongue grass do not root at the nodes like those of jointhead arthraxon. Deer-tongue grass may also be confused with common or Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis), which also has broad grass.

Dicanthelium clandestinum Common Name: deer tongue grass Scientific Name: Dicanthelium clandestinum (L.) Gould Family Name.