Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
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Scientific Name:<br />
Common Name(s):<br />
Panicum maximum<br />
Guinea grass<br />
Height:<br />
Leaves:<br />
Flowers:<br />
Bark:<br />
Fruit:<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r:<br />
Treatment:<br />
6-10 ft tall clumps<br />
Blades are <strong>of</strong>ten 12-16 inches long with a width <strong>of</strong> 1-3 inches <strong>of</strong>ten with<br />
short stocky hairs. Stems can reach 10-24 inches<br />
Clumps <strong>of</strong> green to purplish spikelets, 1 st clump larger <strong>the</strong>n o<strong>the</strong>rs<br />
N/A<br />
Grass seeds<br />
Widely used as animal food, re-sprouts from rhizomes after fires. Can spread<br />
by wind, animals, or rhizomes. Produces large amounts <strong>of</strong> seeds.<br />
Foliar application <strong>of</strong> Rodeo at 10%<br />
http://www.angrin.tlri.gov.tw/engli<br />
sh/grine/farm-facee/maximum.html<br />
© Gerald D. Carr, University <strong>of</strong> Hawaii Botany Department<br />
(source URL: http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/<br />
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