Taxon: Panicum miliaceum subsp. ruderale (Kitag.) Tzvelev
Family: Poaceae

Collector: Iltis, Hugh H.   28456a   

Date: 1978-08-11

Verbatim Date: 1978-08-11

Locality: United States, Wisconsin, Dane, Madison. Messerschmidt Farm, 1 mile N of Truax Airfield just W of Hwy 51, ca 5 miles NNE from center of Madison

43.15731781  -89.31504879 +-1138m.

Verbatim Coordinates: T08N R10E sec16

Georeference Remarks: Latitude/Longitude was derived from the Township, Range, Section location. This causes an imprecision.

Habitat: Farm. In moist clayey maize field. MASS COLLECTION: v0239075WIS-v0239080WIS. Aggressively weedy annual, 6 (depauperate)-17 dm tall with 1-6 or more stems from one base. Inflorescences (11-)17-55 cm long to (5-)10-42 cm wide, now beginning to shed the black seeds, though many yet green and not quite out of sheath yet, the former heavy with seed and nodding, the latter, esp. in smaller infls. erect and stiffer. [from 26 July collection] [Supplemental notes 2 weeks later, Aug. 11, 1978: Plants now 1-7 feet tall, full grown, 1/4 (i.e. tips) of panicles yellowing an shedding its black seeds, the panicles on 1-2 dm long peduncles quite exserted from sheaths. (Species, according to Dr. R. G. Harvey, U.W. Agronomist, a bad weed on many farms in Southern Wisconsin, present here for ca. 8 years (!!?), this doubtful, as this is the first collection from state.)

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Record Id: 00a8bb06-7406-491f-8699-8a8fa3f4fdc6

Occurrence ID (GUID): ebfaaaa6-c7e5-4933-9a26-53e5bc732504

For additional information on this occurrence, please contact: Mary Ann Feist (mfeist@wisc.edu)