Panicum antidotale - Flora of Qatar

Chasea prolifera, Milium effusum, Panicum akoense, Panicum brevifolium, Panicum elliottii, Panicum meneri, Panicum miliare, Panicum musciparum, Panicum proliferum, Panicum sparsum, Paspalum miliare

Common names

Extract from Wikipedia article

Panicum antidotale Retz. (Punjabi: ਘਮੂਰ ghamur, English: blue panicgrass) is a tall (up to 3 metres), coarse, woody perennial grass throughout the Himalaya and the Upper Gangetic Plain and specifically in various regions of the Indian state of Punjab and the Pakistan province of Punjab and the neighbouring areas of these regions. The plant has strong spreading rhizomes.[+]

This grass is also listed by William Coldstream in his Illustrations of Some of the Grasses of the Southern Punjab with the vernacular name ghirri (Punjabi ਿਘਰੱੀ) which he however explains is not known to those landowners that he had interviewed as a separate species of Panicum but rather as an unripe form of Panicum antidotale which is generally called in Punjabi ghamur (ਘਮੂਰ).

Blue panicgrass (Panicum antidotale) near Zubara exit of Al Shamal Road. Northern Qatar, April 3, 2014

Al Shamal Rd, Qatar

Blue panicgrass (Panicum antidotale) taken from area of water tank on roadside between Mesayeed and Harrarah. Qatar, October 30, 2015

Close up of a stalk of blue panicgrass (Panicum antidotale) taken from area of water tank on roadside between Mesayeed and Harrarah. Qatar, October 30, 2015