Wild Flowering Plants
Poaceae
family Lasiacis divaricata (Linnaeus) Hitchcock, Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 15: 16. 1910. Bas.: Panicum divaricatum Linnaeus (1759). Ti banbou. Banbou fwans. ]Indigenous quite common herb of deciduous seasonal forest. St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. Similar to Lasiacis sorghoidea but leaves less than 10cm. long and inflorescence much shorter. Leaves are separated by gaps while in Lasiacis sorghoidea they are almost touching. |