Common name: Bulbous Panic, Texas Grass
Panicum bulbosum Kunth APNI* 
Description: Robust tufted perennial to 1 m high, the lowest internode of each culm thickened into a hard, corm-like base 1–2 c. thick, sometimes with 1 or more corms of previous years attached, budding at the base.
Leaves with sheath usually glabrous; ligule 0.5–1 mm long, membranous below, ciliate above; blade 3–12 mm wide.
Panicles long-exserted, 15–50 cm long, pedicels mostly 0.5–5 mm long. Spikelets 3.0–4.2 mm long, ± obtuse, glabrous. Lower glume c. 50% the length of the spikelet, obtuse, 3–5-nerved; upper usually a little shorter than the fertile lemma, usually 5-nerved. Lower lemma male or sterile, similar to the upper glume, usually 5-nerved; palea about as long as the lemma. Fertile lemma 2.8–4 mm long, finely and obscurely rugulose.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: A cultivated species that occasionally escapes from cultivation. Native of Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *CT, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP, *NFWP
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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