Plant Details

Accepted name:: Panicum capillare L. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
witch grass	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 17 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Panicum capillare var. occidentale Rydb. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 3: 186 (1895).
Chasea capillaris (L.) Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 2: 64 (1911).
Leptoloma barbipulvinata (Nash ex Rydb.) Smyth Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 25: 86 (1911).
Leptoloma capillaris (L.) Smyth Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 25: 86 (1911).
Milium barbipulvinatum (Nash ex Rydb.) Lunell Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 212 (1915).
Milium capillare (L.) Moench Methodus: 203 (1794), nom. illeg.
Panicum acutifolium Willd. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 320 (1824), pro syn.
Panicum barbipulvinatum Nash ex Rydb. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 21 (1900).
Panicum barbipulvinatum var. hirsutipes Suksd. Werdenda 1: 17 (1927).
Panicum bobartii Lam. Encycl. 4: 748 (1798).
Panicum capillare var. agreste Gatt. Tennessee Fl.: 94 (1887).
Panicum capillare subsp. barbipulvinatum (Nash ex Rydb.) Tzvelev Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 5: 18 (1968).
Panicum capillare var. barbipulvinatum (Nash ex Rydb.) McGregor Phytologia 55: 256 (1984), nom. superfl.
Panicum capillare var. brevifolium Rydb. & Shear Bull. Div. Agrostol. U.S.D.A. 5: 21 (1897).
Panicum capillare var. vulgare Scribn. Bull. Agric. Exp. Sta. Univ. Tennessee 7: 44 (1894).
Panicum elegantulum Suksd. Werdenda 1: 16 (1927), nom. illeg.
Panicum riparium H.Scholz Feddes Repert. 113: 275 (2002).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Panicum capillare L.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Panicum capillare L. var. occidentale Rydb.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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