Warty Panicgrass
Panicum verrucosumnative · Central Texas
Warty Panicgrass is an annual grass native to Central Texas that grows 1–5 ft tall and 5 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and high water. Blooms brown and green in summer. Good for birds, butterflies, caterpillars, moths and small mammals.
Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Annual grass
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- High
- Height
- 1–5 ft
- Spread
- 5 ft
- Bloom
- Summer · brown, green
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on loam, moist, sand
- Wildlife
- Supports birds, browsing mammals, butterflies, caterpillars, moths and small mammals
Where it grows
Recorded in this EPA Level IV ecoregion in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Floodplains and Low Terraces
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.