Dichanthelium implicatum(Scribn.) Kerguélen

WFO wfo-0000863446 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dichanthelium implicatum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. a Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-26 / obs. 139543862
Dichanthelium implicatum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. b Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92058064
Dichanthelium implicatum, photographed by Owen Strickland
fig. c Owen Strickland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86655510
Dichanthelium implicatum, photographed by Evan Barker
fig. d Evan Barker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 52614196
Dichanthelium implicatum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. e Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139543741
Dichanthelium implicatum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. f Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92058107
Dichanthelium implicatum, photographed by Owen Strickland
fig. g Owen Strickland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87024906
Dichanthelium implicatum, photographed by John Kees
fig. h John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 137782828

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Dichanthelium implicatum is native: Alabama, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin AlabamaArkansasBritish ColumbiaCaliforniaConnecticutIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMissouriNebraskaNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNova ScotiaOhioOklahomaOntarioOregonPennsylvaniaPrince Edward I.QuébecSaskatchewanTennesseeVermontWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsin DelawareDistrict of ColumbiaRhode I.
Native distribution of Dichanthelium implicatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
British Columbia BRC
California CAL
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
District of Columbia WDC
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
Missouri MSO
Nebraska NEB
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
Nova Scotia NSC
Ohio OHI
Oklahoma OKL
Ontario ONT
Oregon ORE
Pennsylvania PEN
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
Saskatchewan SAS
Tennessee TEN
Vermont VER
Washington WAS
West Virginia WVA
Wisconsin WIS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 111 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -17.3 °C -9.2 °C -2.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.5 °C 25.8 °C 31.3 °C
Annual rainfall 833 mm 1,012 mm 1,253 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 86 mm 196 mm 244 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 111 research-grade observations of Dichanthelium implicatum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. implicatum (Scribn.) Freckmann & Lelong
  • Dichanthelium acuminatum var. implicatum (Scribn.) Gould & C.A.Clark
  • Panicum acuminatum var. implicatum (Scribn.) Beetle
  • Panicum implicatum Scribn.
  • Panicum lanuginosum var. implicatum (Scribn.) Fernald
  • Panicum lindheimeri var. implicatum (Scribn.) Fernald
  • Panicum occidentale Scribn.
  • Panicum pacificum Hitchc. & Chase
  • Panicum unciphyllum var. implicatum (Scribn.) Scribn. & Merr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.