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torpedo grass
Panicum repens
Panicum repens
torpedo grass Grass Family
Panicum repens Poaceae
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common names
  torpedo grass
  creeping panic
  panic rampant
  wainaku grass
  couch panicum
  torpedograss
accepted scientific name
  Panicum repens L.
rules for finding collection records
  Panicum repens (29)
family name
  • Poaceae
Image Author: ©2005 John R. Gwaltney, Southeastern Flora
Image License: Author's permission
Image Source
Category: Grass/Sedge/Rush
Grass Category: Grass
Plant Observed beginning of May thru end of January
Not native. Naturalized in Hawaii.

How Likely at this Location (12%)
Name Match (100%)
Plant Showiness (27%)
where plant found
mag select

Disturbed
Wetland
Sand
Salt Marsh
Rocky
Riparian
Meadow
Grassland
Forest
grid lines base


Names

Accepted Scientific Name

Panicum repens   L.   (TSN: 504106, Index: 892)


Scientific Names used to access collection records



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