DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Panicum hemitomon | Maidencane 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Maidencane occurs on the coastal plain from New Jersey south through
Florida and west to Texas [14,39].  It is found in Tennessee [20].
Maidencane also occurs in South America [12,15].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES41  Wet grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  DE  FL  GA  LA  MD  MS  NJ  NC  SC
     TN  TX  VA


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICY  BITH  COSW  CUIS  EVER  JELA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    98  Pond pine
   100  Pondcypress
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Maidencane occurs as a vegetation type in the following classification:

The natural features of southern Florida especially the vegetation, and
  the Everglades [9]

Common associates of maidencane include pickerelweed (Pontederia
cordata), lance pickerelweed (P. lanceolata), southern cattail (Typha
domingensis), common cattail (T. latifolia), narrowleaf cattail (T.
angustifolia), bladderwort (Utricularia spp.), white water-lily
(Nymphaea odorata), floating heart (Nymphoides aquaticum), pipewort
(Eriocaulon compressum), swamp-lily (Crinum americanum), bulltongue
(Sagittaria lancifolia), wapato arrowhead (S. latifolia), sawgrass
(Cladium jamaicense), bulrush (Scirpus spp.), beakrush (Rhynchospora
spp.), spikerush (Eleocharis spp.), and sedge (Carex spp.) [7,27,29,41].

Maidencane is a component of the sawgrass-arrowhead (Sagittaria
spp.)-maidencane community, the most extensive association of the
Everglades in Florida.  It is also a component of the
sawgrass-maidencane type, which normally occupies drier sites [29].  In
wet prairies maidencane can be a codominant on short beakrush
(Rhynchospora tracyi) flats [27,29].  Maidencane is a dominant in
wetlands scattered within dry prairies and flatwoods in Sarasota and
Manatee counties, Florida [23].  Maidencane is a dominant in flag
(pickerelweed, fire flag [Thalia geniculata], arrowhead, and other
species with flaglike leaves) marshes of Florida [27].  Maidencane is a
dominant in open marsh areas of the Okefenokee Swamp in Florida and
Georgia [7].

Maidencane was the dominant vegetation as an emergent aquatic and as a
terrestrial plant on open wet mesic sites on the shore of Gannet Pond in
northern Leon County, Florida.  In the shrub zone located between open
maidencane and forest, associates of understory maidencane included
buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), willow (Salix spp.), and
lizards's tail (Saururus cernuus) [48].

Maidencane in southeastern Louisiana freshwater marshes can occur as a
codominant with Olney threesquare (Scirpus americanus) [41] and as a
dominant with common cattail and giant bulrush (Scirpus californicus)
[31,36].  Maidencane is dominant in the floating fresh marshes of
south-central Louisiana [31,34,37].

Related categories for Species: Panicum hemitomon | Maidencane