|                    Beaked panicum
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                |                    Panicum anceps  
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                |                    Poaceae 
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                 Landscape Uses:
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                 Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. | 
               
                Ecological Restoration Notes:  | 
               
              
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                | Availability: | 
               
              
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                 Rarely grown by native plant nurseries. | 
               
              
                | Description: | 
               
              
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                 Medium herbaceous grass. | 
               
              
                | Height: | 
               
              
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                 About 2-3 feet in height.  Spreading from underground stems and forming patches broader than tall. | 
               
              
                | Growth Rate: | 
               
              
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                 Moderate. | 
               
              
                | Range: | 
               
              
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                 Eastern and central United States west to Texas and south to Martin, Hendry and Collier counties. | 
               
              
                | Habitats: | 
               
              
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                 Wet pinelands and marshes. | 
               
              
                | Soils: | 
               
              
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                 Moist to wet, moderately well-drained sandy soils, with some humusy material in the top layer. | 
               
              
                | Nutritional Requirements: | 
               
              
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                 Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive. | 
               
              
                | Salt Water Tolerance: | 
               
              
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                 Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water. | 
               
              
                | Salt Wind Tolerance: | 
               
              
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                 Low; salt wind may burn the leaves. | 
               
              
                | Drought Tolerance: | 
               
              
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                 Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought. | 
               
              
                | Light Requirements: | 
               
              
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                 Full sun to light shade. | 
               
              
                | Flower Color: | 
               
              
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                 Brownish inflorescence. | 
               
              
                | Flower Characteristics: | 
               
              
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                 Inconspicuous. | 
               
              
                | Flowering Season: | 
               
              
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                 Summer-fall. | 
               
              
                | Fruit: | 
               
              
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                 Inconspicuous caryopsis. | 
               
              
                | Wildlife and Ecology: | 
               
              
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                 Larval host for clouded skipper (Lerema accius) butterflies). Attracts pollinators. | 
               
                     
                | Horticultural Notes: | 
               
              
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                 Can be grown from seed. | 
               
              
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                    Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Florida website.
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                    Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Florida website.
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                    Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Florida website.
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                    Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Florida website.
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                    Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Florida website.
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